Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World

This is the story where the famous creature of Sherlock Holmes created and canonized the Lost World conventions. Every Lost World story to come later has followed the rhythms that Doyle laid out here.

This is also the story where Doyle creates the famous Anti-Holmes character of Professor Challenger.

I was inspired to create a trilogy of Lost World stories published in a few years of each other, that fit this channel perfectly. This is the first, and we'll turn to Edgar Rice Burroughs tomorrow and Abraham Merritt on Saturday. I'll also update this with those links when they go live.

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[kw]

Conan Doyle's The Lost World is a relic of the times in which it was written, not an indictment against the author. Many works that are considered to be so politically correct and acceptable today have no guarantee of being seen in that light a few generations from now. Unless a book is very consciously advocating a particular agenda subjective political/societal opinions are really not the measuring stick by which it should be judged. A great and enduring book, many thanks for reviewing it. Cheers!

[Uselessmouth]

I always said and will always say that there are only two most influential and unique dinosaur related novels and it will be always like this. The first one is The Lost World and the second one is Jurassic Park. TLW entire concept and idea reintroduced dinosaurs into the world and basically created the path for others to follow. Eventually there was a 1925 movie made, making a stop-motion pioneer Willis O’Brien’s big screen debut, which led to wildly famous King Kong and so on and on. That was a real start for the entire “dinosauromania” through the decades until we reached the point in history when Michael Crichton wrote Jurassic Park, that became a new standard for dinosaur related adventures, I’m not even gonna mention the super-successful movie and subsequent franchise that it spawned. Now that’s a standard for the entire genre of books, movies, games… All of this wouldn’t be possible without Conan Doyle and his The Lost World novel. Even Crichton acknowledged it and named sequel novel to Jurassic Park - The Lost World. Not to mention another cult adaption under the same name. It’s insane how Doyle back in 1912 created a path that geniuses will follow and now, in 2022, this is pretty much a norm and a standard. Even his Sherlock Holmes never reached this high!

[shourjoroychaudhuri]

I read an abridged version of the book. It was great!

Your review was also good👍

[LAUTICITO]

Strange, i thought mr.Malone was the protagonist wich was in love with Gladys and she wanted an adventureous man, so he decided to prove himself for an adventure... I have this problem of eventually forgetting some details of previous stuff in books, but all i read from now on is that he met some professors and science bois to look for an amazonic and unexplored land.

[milesknightestrada]

Finally! Another review of thia masterpiece!

[mohammedzaidi]

Can you please recommend some books like jurasic park? Man vs beast sort of a plot

[seeratchhabra]

Who else is here to understand story cause of school holidays homework

[electricmastro]

Interesting. I've heard this one get negative criticism for the racist-driven writing Doyle has when talking about the indigenous peoples and ape-like creatures. With something like that, I blame society more than one singular person like Doyle, but I imagine people out there condemn Doyle as a bad person out of accusations of racism nonetheless. For me, as is I a suppose with all books, I take context and time periods into account, and with this book in particular, while I can recognize such shortcomings, I still manage to enjoy the book for what I feel that it is and I don't think there's any shame in that. Nice video by the way!

[Afrologist]

Spoilers I guess




I still honestly don't get the entire dynamic with Gladys, especially the ending. I know it's supposed to highlight the fickleness of the woman herself, but it still leaves me scratching my head. The timeframe of how everything happened just doesn't piece together either. How did Malone have no idea about a potential rival? How did the rival manage to not only get engaged but also organize & execute a wedding in the time that he was gone? The entire expedition took place over the course of maybe 2 months if that. For a journalist, Malone must've really dropped the ball in terms of figuring out what he was up against, but ultimately it was the weakest part of the book for me.

[charlesdu]

You clearly did not read the lost world!.... Wow...