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The Lost World is the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The plot follows an expedition to an Amazonian plateau where it is discovered prehistoric animals, including dinosaurs, still exist. The expedition is routed by indigenous people and a race of apelike people where they encounter a war between the two.

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The Poison Belt is the second story, a Novella, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to follow Professor Challenger, first introduced in The Lost World. Published in 1913, mostly takes place in Sussex, contradictory to The Lost World, which takes place much in South America. The Poison Belt follows Challenger in a new adventure as he believes Earth is about to pass through a poisonous belt of gas in space.

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The Hound of Baskervilles, is the third detective novel to feature Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Like the previous completions, it originally appeared in The Strand Magazine, however this novel was serialized and is one story, unlike The Adventures and The Memoirs. The story is mostly set in England's West countryside as Holmes investigates a mysterious supernatural hound.

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The Crime of the Congo is a 1909 critique by the author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of the human rights abuses committed by Leopold II, king of the Belgians in the Congo free state. The book is an expose on the situation labeled a "rubber regime" by Doyle. He points out the abuses occurring to the indigenous people by the European traders in the rubber industry and the private land of Leopold II of Blegium. The book was heralded as, "the most powerful indictment yet launched against the Belgian rulers of this bloodstained colony."

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The Prose Edda

Also Called

Snorre's Edda, Or The Younger Edda

by Snorri Sturluson

The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda (Icelandic: Snorra Edda) or simply Edda, is an Old Norse work of literature written in Iceland in the early 13th century. Together with the Poetic Edda, it comprises the major store of Scandinavian mythology. The work is often assumed to have been written, or at least compiled, by the Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson around the year 1220.

It begins with a euhemerized Prologue, a section on the Norse cosmogony, pantheon and...

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final detective novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to feature the famous protagonist Sherlock Holmes. The plot centers around a fictional secret society based on the Molly Maguires.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories about the fictional protagonist detective Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Published in 1892, it comprises stories first published in The Strand Magazine. The stories, as told by Watson, are not in chronological order, but comprise of Holmes ideology of trying to correct social injustices.

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Round the Fire Stories is a collection of seventeen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories originally published in 1908, they are meant to be read, "round the fire" upon a winter's night. Murder, mystery, ghosts and ghouls fill the pages of this classical set of stories. They are:
I. The Leather Funnel
II. The Beetle Hunter
III. The Man with the Watches
IV. The Pot of Caviare
V. The Japanned Box
VI. The Black Doctor
VII. Playing with Fire
VIII. The Jews' Breastplate
IX. The Lost Special
X. The Club-Footed Grocer...

Danger And other stories is a collection of short stories by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that were published shortly before the onset of WWI. It contains:
Danger Being the Log of Captain John Sirius
One Crowded Hour
A Point of View
The Fall of Lord Barrymore
The Horror of the Heights
Borrowed Scenes
The Surgeon of Gaster Fell
How It Happened
The Prisoner's Defence
Three of Them

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