Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

Nils Clausson (University of Regina)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.3: Scottish Writing and Culture, 400-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Ash-Irisarri (University of Edinburgh), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Gina Lyle (University of York), J. Derrick McClure (University of Aberdeen), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

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First circulation or publication 1912

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After the Holmes stories,

The Lost World

(1912) is probably Arthur Conan Doyle’s next most popular work. It was first published serially in the

Philadelphia Press Sunday Magazine

(24 March-21 July 1912) and in the London edition of

The Strand Magazine

(April-November 1912) before being published by Hodder and Stoughton on 15 October 1912. An adventure tale in the tradition of H. Rider Haggard’s romances set in Africa,

The Lost World

is narrated by a reporter for the

Daily Gazette

, Edward Malone, who is invited by Professor Challenger to join his expedition to the Amazon basin of Brazil in order to confirm his claim, based on an earlier trip, that dinosaurs inhabit a lost plateau in the region. Accompanied by another scientist, Professor Summerlee, and by Lord John Roxton, an…

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Citation: Clausson, Nils. "The Lost World". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 December 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10043, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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