Questia - Movie

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Kathleen E. Miller wrote:

> (But this can't be right. Doyle surely wrote The Lost World in 1912, but
> the movie was 1925. This must be a misdated later edition. The hit comes on
> the first page as a review of the movie, followed by the book itself).

In my experience, Questia is like ancestry.com: it frequently misdates
documents.  You always need to look at the publication data for the book
that you retrieved to make sure it's not a later edition misindexed under
the earlier date.

Fred Shapiro


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