Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his as
Portrait of Doyle by Herbert Rose Barraud, 1893
Professor Challenger by Harry Rountree in the novella The Poison Belt published in The Strand Magazine
Portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget, 1904
Sherlock Holmes statue in Edinburgh, erected opposite the birthplace of Doyle, which was demolished c. 1970
The Lost World (Doyle novel)
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The Lost World is an adventure and science fiction novel by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recounting an expedition to a remote plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where dinosaurs and
Arthur Conan Doyle
…detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, which are milestones in crime fiction, and for his first work featuring Professor Challenger, The Lost World (1912), which gave its name to a subgenre of speculative fiction. He was a prolific writer who produced over 200 stories and articles, four volumes of…
Cover of the first edition of The Lost World
Frontispiece photo from the 1912 edition of The Lost World, showing the fictional members of the expedition, left to right: E. D. Malone; Professor Summerlee; Professor G. E. Challenger; Lord John Roxton (Challenger was impersonated by Conan Doyle himself)
Maple White's sketch of a living Stegosaurus
View of the plateau that isolates the lost world