Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World (Summit Classic Collector Editions) Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher Marketing: This collector-quality edition contains the complete original text of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's enduring classic in a newly edited and freshly typeset version, together with a newly-written original biographical sketch of the author and a detailed selected bibliography of his work. With a generous 6"x9" page size, this Summit Classic edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Page headers and modern page design that echoes the look and feel of traditional book publishing values exemplify the attention to detail given this volume. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) is known the world over as the creator of the famous consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. To a lesser extent, his irascible Professor Challenger is known to generations of readers. "The Lost World" is one of Conan Doyle's best known novels, a tale of adventure on a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle, where steep cliffs on all sides have isolated life atop the plateau from the rest of the world for eons. Professor Challenger and his company of intrepid adventurers make their way into Conan Doyle's "Lost World," only to find themselves exposed to dangers they could never have anticipated, even if they had really believed Challenger's claims of the wonders to be seen in the mysterious, isolated world he had described. Challenger himself had reached the threshold of the plateau on a previous adventure, but even he is not prepared for what awaits in the land above the cliffs, where prehistoric creatures even more astonishing than the dinosaurs he predicted lurk in the dense forests. Conan Doyle's tale has been a perennial favorite with readers since it first appeared one hundred years ago, inspiring several film versions, along with television programs, cartoons and comic books, some faithful to the story and some only loosely based on it. Contributor Bio:  Doyle, Arthur Conan Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and prolific writer most renowned for his ingenious Sherlock Holmes detective stories A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. His collected body of work includes science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and nonfiction. Conan Doyle was knighted by King Edward VII in 1902 after writing a widely acclaimed pamphlet defending the British position in the Boer War.