![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was greatly surprised to receive a business communication from him which was in the following terms: My general recollection was that Challenger has been depicted as a wild genius of a violent and intolerant disposition. I am so busy, however, with my own profession, and my firm has been so overtaxed with orders, that I know little of what is going on in the world outside my own special interests. I had a vague recollection of having heard my friend Edward Malone, of the Gazette, speak of Professor Challenger, with whom he had been associated in some remarkable adventures. Why? In order to prove his hypothesis that the world is itself a living organism! Enjoy. Challenger, here described as “a primitive cave-man in a lounge suit,” while also “the greatest brain in Europe,” proposes to drill his way from a tract of land in Sussex (England) eight miles beneath the planet’s epidermis. The fifth and final Professor Challenger adventure, it takes us not outward (e.g., to a South American plateau crawling with dinosaurs), nor inward (e.g., to an airtight chamber, while the Earth passes through a poison belt), but instead downward. Arthur Conan Doyle’s novella When the World Screamed was first published in 1928. ![]()
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