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Characters informed by race or Darwin?: the MONDAY BOOK CLUB

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From: Sunday Gazette-Mail
Date: 20060903
Author:Carol Campbell

For the Sunday Gazette-Mail At its latest meeting, the Sunday Gazette-Mail Monday Book Club entered The Lost World to discuss both the book and its author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle modeled two of the books characters, the scientists Challenger and Summerlee, on former professors of his at the University of Edinburgh. Scientist/ Professor Challenger, a new character Doyle hoped would supplant Sherlock Holmes, had his own share of eccentricities that were more than enough to match those Doyle had killed off in his detective. Doyle wrote five adventures in the Challenger series, but was ...

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