Oxford Bookworms Library: The Hound of the Baskervilles: Level 4: 1400-Word Vocabulary

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Overview

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.

Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.

Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension.

Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension.

Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780194791748
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/15/2008
Series:	Oxford Bookworms Library
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	670L (what's this?)

About the Author

A prolific author of books, short stories, poetry, and more, the Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best known for the creation of one of literature’s most vivid and enduring characters: Sherlock Holmes. Through detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction, Holmes and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step into the swirling fog of Victorian London to rescue the innocent, confound the guilty, and solve the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1859

Date of Death:

July 7, 1930

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Crowborough, Sussex, England

Education:

Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885

Table of Contents

Story Introduction i

1 The Case Begins 1

2 The BaskerviUe Papers 2

3 How Sir Charles Died 7

4 The Problem 13

5 Sir Henry BaskerviMe 18

6 More Mystery 22

7 BaskerviUe Hall 27

8 The Stapleton's of Pen House 31

9 The Escaped Prisoner 38

10 The Letter 44

11 Laura Lyons 49

12 The Man on the Moor 52

13 Too Late 55

14 Death on the Moor 60

15 The Trap 67

16 The Hound of the Baskervilles 72

17 The Search for the Murderer 76

18 Looking Back 82

Glossary 88

Activities: Before Reading 92

Activities: While Reading 93

Activities: After Reading 96

About the Author 100

About the Bookworms Library 101