Dominican Scholar Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship Faculty and Staff Scholarship Spring 2015 Arthur Conan Doyle's "Great New Adventure Story": Journalism in The Lost World Amy Wong University of California, Los Angeles,
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[email protected]. 1 Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Great New Adventure Story”: Journalism in The Lost World In our Next Number will commence Conan Doyle’s Great New Adventure Story, guaranteed to give a thrill to the most jaded reader of fiction. —Strand Magazine, March 1912 George Newnes’s popular illustrated monthly, the Strand Magazine (1891-1950), anticipated with great fanfare the serialization of Arthur Conan Doyle’s latest work, The Lost World (April-November 1912). The advertisement above, delivered in large, bold lettering, and set within a box occupying half of the issue’s final page, expresses much confidence in the “Great New Adventure Story”—in spite