The Lost World
Boys are mysterious creatures, with rich imaginations and inner lives at which most can only guess. Luckily, a few writers have the talent to capture their fantasies of extraordinary adventure and epic bravery. Inspired by the success of The Dangerous Book For Boys, the six titles of the Penguin Great Books For Boys collection celebrate the adventurer within every boy with tales of shipwreck, murder, espionage, and survival. With a striking series look that is nostalgic and, at the same time, completely modern, these Great Books For Boys are sure to appeal to boys young and old.
Unlucky in love, but desperate to prove himself in an adventure, journalist Ed Malone is sent to interview the infamous and hot-tempered Professor Challenger about his bizarre South American expedition findings – especially his sketches of a strange plateau and the monstrous creatures that appear to live there.
But rather than being angry at his questions, Challenger invites him along on his next field trip. Malone is delighted; until it becomes clear that the Professor was telling the truth about the terrible lost world he discovered.
Will they all survive the terrifying creatures on the island? And will anyone ever believe what they saw there?
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Long before crime fiction became a genre, there was Sherlock Holmes—and behind him, the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: physician, spiritualist, and literary architect of deduction itself. He didn’t just create a detective; he carved out an entire way of thinking, a cold, rational clarity that sliced through Victorian fog like a magnifying glass catching the morning sun.
Born in 1859 in Edinburgh, Doyle was a man of science before he was a man of letters. Trained as a doctor, he brought a clinical precision to his writing that made Holmes’s logic feel almost forensic in an age when forensic science was still in its infancy. The A Study in Scarlet debut in 1887 wasn’t just the birth of a character—it was the birth of modern detective fiction. And yet, Doyle always saw Holmes as a side project. It was his historical novels, like The White Company, that he considered his serious work.
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