However, inspired by the visionary works of two authors he much admired, Jules Verne (author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Five Weeks in a Balloon) and H. His famous private detective, appearing first in A Study in Scarlet (1887), was over twenty years old by then and he had also published several historical novels alongside his crime writing. By that time, the creator of Sherlock Holmes already had eighteen novels and nearly seventy short stories to his name, as well as several plays, essays, articles and some poetry. Arthur Conan Doyle’s extraordinary Jurassic adventureĪt the start of the 1910s, Arthur Conan Doyle was about to embark on a new voyage of discovery. The edition was produced in close collaboration with the Conan Doyle Estate, without whom this project would not have come to light, and the New York Public Library’s Berg collection, where the original document is kept. The book also includes a foreword by Jon Lellenberg, American advisor to the Conan Doyle Estate Ltd and author of five books about Conan Doyle’s life and work. The manuscript is accompanied with a series of 21 illustrations from French artist Géo Dupuis. In this edition, the manuscript of The Lost World is reproduced for the first time, showcasing Arthur Conan Doyle’s handwriting and edits in a graphically restored version of the original. The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle's manuscript
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