The British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best remembered as the creator of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 22, 1859, into an Irish Roman Catholic family of noted artistic ac...
It is difficult to imagine the shape which detective fiction might have taken had it not been for the creation by Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle took a form of fiction which had become popular through the works of his predecessors, Ed...
Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his short stories and novels about Sherlock Holmes, whom Jon L. Lellenberg describes in The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Thirteen Biographies in Search of a Life (1987) as "the most universally recognized fiction...
The Lost World is a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau (native name is Tepuyes) in South America (Guyana) where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of Professor...
I WAS presented with The Lost World in 1956 for winning the school Under 11 English Prize, and until last week I hadn't read it since. The Lost World is a 'boy's book' which, as an adult, I've reread with huge relish. It...
Byline: SIMON BRETT I WAS presented with The Lost World in 1956 for winning the school Under 11 English Prize, and until last week I hadn't read it since. The Lost World is a 'boy's book' which, as an adult, I've reread...
Selected home-video releases:"Away From Her"A remarkably assured directing debut from actress Sarah Polley, this beautifully understated drama presents Julie Christie in an Academy Award-worthy performance 40 years after her best-actress Oscar win for "Darling" and casts Canadian star Gordon Pinsent in a heartbreaking role alongside...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian and Argentine paleontologists have discovered the largely complete fossil of a new species of giant dinosaur that roamed what is now northern Patagonia about 80 million years ago. The herbivorous Futalognkosaurus dukei measured an estimated 105 feet to...
