Read The Hound of the Baskervilles in Englishwith every sentence explained

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle was first published in 1902. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked intermediate and filed under mystery and crime.

A family curse. A giant hound on the moor. A death no one can explain.

Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead at the edge of the Devonshire moor, his face twisted with terror. Close to the body, his friend Dr. Mortimer noticed something the inquest never heard about: the footprints of a gigantic hound. Now Mortimer brings Sherlock Holmes an old family manuscript about a demon dog said to have haunted the Baskervilles for generations.

The heir, Sir Henry, has just arrived from Canada to take over Baskerville Hall, and strange things start happening to him in London before he has even set out. Holmes sends Dr. Watson to Dartmoor with him: a lonely land of mist, treacherous bogs, ancient stone huts and an escaped convict hiding somewhere on the hills.

Serialised in 1901–02, the novel brought Holmes back to readers after his famous "death", and it remains the best known and most filmed of all his adventures.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday English feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.