This is the iPhone version. Enjoy this famous story, adapted for learners of English, and improve your English. Read it, listen to it, and look up words you don’t know in the glossary. Colour illustrations help you understand important parts of the story. When you finish reading, see how many questions you can get right in the quiz.


•Listen to a real voice reading the story
•Read this story and you will read 19,330 words
•The Hound of the Baskervilles is a Stage 4 Oxford Bookworm
•Oxford Bookworms go from Starter to Stage 6, from beginner to advanced level


The story:

Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the Southwest of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death.

A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog – a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person – the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.


Are you learning English? Enjoy a great story, have fun, and improve your language with Oxford Bookworms! This version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles has been specially adapted for language learners by Patrick Nobes. Research shows that the more you read, the more your language improves.