Michael Crichton (who wrote both the books) used it intentionally as a tribute to Conan Doyle's classic and even included a character named 'Roxton' in the book. Oh, as to Spielberg 'stealing the title' for his sequel to Jurassic Park.he didn't.

At one point a large paragraph about interpreting Time’s changes through fossils is crossed out, but more about it is included later on. Like most of Conan Doyle’s manuscripts, this one has occasional interlinear additions but not very many deletions. Rider Haggard's KING SOLOMON'S MINES either but we have managed to put up with Anna Lee and Deborah Kerr and Sharon Stone in the various film adaptations of THAT-it's just one of those Hollywood things-throw in a girl to spice it up. The Lost World was written in the autumn of 1911, and completed by December 3rd. Not sure what Bessie Love is doing in this (there is no girl in the book. Pretty faithful to the novel.Wallace Beery (forever famous as Long John Silver in 1934's classic adaptation of TREASURE ISLAND-a film in which he ALSO co-stars with Lewis Stone who was Nayland Smith to Karloff's Fu Manchu and Dad to Mickey Rooney's Andy Hardy.and just to give us another connection to Sherlock Holmes you'll see Nigel Bruce-Rathbone's Watson-as Squire Trelawney in that film as well) and where WAS I? Oh yeah.Wallace Beery.pretty good here as Professor Challenger. OK.so this is the silent version of the Conan Doyle novel (same guy that created Sherlock Holmes). Arthur Conan Doyle’s medical and writing careers intertwined and his work has a history of being read in the light of his medical expertise. The Lost World is now not only recognised as possibly being Conan Doyles finest fiction work, but is without doubt one of the most enduring literary examples.

The lost world by arthur conan doyle