“I have wrought my simple plan, If I give an hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.’ ‘That’s my foreword,’ declared Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, as he neared completion of his famous novel The Lost World in November 1911: ‘It … Continue reading Revisiting The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Rollicking Adventure Novel