The novel was Conan Doyle's first full-length science-fiction work as well as the first story to feature the indefatigable Professor Challenger who was, after Holmes, Conan Doyle's favourite character. Even today, The Lost World story unfolding for the first time reader still proves captivating, and along with the unsurpassed palaeo-artwork of the late Czech painter Zdenek Burian, has probably been responsible for inspiring more young would-be palaeontologists than any formal text could ever hope to. Undoubtedly the most important of Conan Doyle's science fiction works is The Lost World, a novel which is often compared with Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Henry Rider Haggard's She: a history of adventure (a dream fantasy of a primitive people living amid the ruins of an ancient but more advanced society). The first is the great historical novels, of which Rodney Stone, Sir Nigel and The White Company are the best known examples, while the other is science fiction, a genre in which Doyle is ranked alongside other celebrated classic authors, including Jules Verne and H.G.Wells, as one of its leading founders.

The Lost World: Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World' Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World'Īlthough Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best known for his highly celebrated Sherlock Holmes detective stories, (no fewer than 56 short stories and four long novels), he also made important and very influential contributions to two other major realms of literature.

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