The Lost World | Characters
Conan Doyle asserted that Professor Challenger was his favorite among his many characters. He may have liked Challenger's unending optimism and bold spirit, but he may also have been indicating his annoyance with the sometimes dominating role Sherlock Holmes played in his life. Challenger is not nearly as well developed as Holmes, and he is not as complex. He is an "overpowering personality": "His head was enormous , . . He had the face and beard which I associate with an Assyrian bull; the former florid, the latter so black as to have a suspicion of blue, spade-shaped and rippling down...
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