Review: A Real Classic
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2014
Written in 1885 by the Victorian adventure writer Sir H. Rider Haggard, this book is widely accepted as the genesis of the Lost World literary genre that inspired Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rudyard Kipling, Sr. Arthur Conan Doyle, and H.P Lovecraft.  Unlike many of the novels of the Victorian era,it's written in the first person with an easy conversational style, rather than the then-common flowery ornate language that can be such a chore to read.  There have been at least six adaptions to film.