The Lost World
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Subjects: Challenger, Professor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Fantasy fiction; South America -- Fiction; Prehistoric peoples -- Fiction; Dinosaurs -- Fiction
Description: <p>Even though <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-conan-doyle">Doyle</a> is most famous for his <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/sherlock-holmes">Sherlock</a> stories, he was also a prolific novelist, and <i>The Lost World</i> is one of his more famous non-Sherlock novels. Like many novels of the day, it was first published serially.</p>
			<p>In it we meet a group of adventurers who head to a deep South American jungle to explore rumors of long-lost dinosaurs. The plot is driven by their journey, discoveries, and subsequent narrow escape. Notably, <i>The Lost World</i> is the novel in which Doyle’s popular recurring character, <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/professor-challenger">Professor Challenger</a>, is introduced.</p>
			<p>Doyle based many of the characters and locations on people and places he was familiar with: the journalist Ed Malone was modeled on <abbr>E. D.</abbr> Morel, and Lord John Roxton on Roger Casement; the Lost World itself was based on descriptions of Bolivia in letters sent to Doyle by his friend Percy Harrison Fawcett.</p>
			<p>The novel remains hugely influential and widely adapted today. The title might even remind modern readers of a certain very famous movie franchise about dinosaur theme parks!</p>