Собака Баскервилей

© Кадр из фильма "The Hound of the Baskervilles" режиссера David Attwood (United Kingdom, 2002).

«And it was at this moment that there occurred a most strange and unexpected thing. We had risen from our rocks and were turning to go home, having abandoned the hopeless chase. The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc. There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor» (ACD).

Гравюра, изображающая оловянный рудник между городами Камборн и Редрут (Корнуолл, Великобритания). Engraved by G. Townsend, Exeter, published by H.Besley, 1860. Из собрания Science Museum, Blythe House.
Источник: http://sciencemuseum.org.uk

«A huge driving-wheel and a shaft half-filled with rubbish showed the position of an abandoned mine» (Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902).

Рисунок Б. Власова к повести Артура Конан Дойла "Собака Баскервилей". Источник: Конан Дойл А. Записки о Шерлоке Холмсе: Рассказы и повесть / Рисунки Б. Власова. - Переизд. - Л.: Детская литература, 1984. - 623 с., ил.

Глава 9. [Второй отчет доктора Ватсона] Свет в болотах.

And yet the course of true love does not run quite as smoothly as one would under the circumstances expect. To-day, for example, its surface was broken by a very unexpected ripple, which has caused our friend considerable perplexity and annoyance (Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902).