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The Lost World
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Professor Challenger: Book 1

The Lost World (1912) (edit title/settings)

by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) (edit contributors)

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In The Lost World , the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger—a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction—Challenger and his party embark on an expedition to a remote Amazonian plateau where, as the good professor puts it,... read more

Characters edit see section history

  • Professor G. E. Challenger: Leader of the expedition to South America and will stop at nothing to get to The lost World. A large man with an impressive appearance rather like a bullfrog.
  • E. D. Malone: A newsreporter and a participant in an expedition to South America.
  • Professor Summerlee: Quarelsome, veteran professor of Comparative Anatomy and a participant in an expedition to South America.
  • Lord John Roxton: A participant in an expedition to South America.
  • Gladys: Love interest of Malone
  • Zambo: Faithful strongman of the expedition.
  • Gomez: Amazon guide.
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “She could but refuse me, and better be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother.”

First Sentence edit see section history

Mr Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth - a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centred upon his own silly self.

Table of Contents edit see section history

I. "THERE ARE HEROISMS ALL ROUND US"
II. "TRY YOUR LUCK WITH PROFESSOR CHALLENGER"
III. "HE IS A PERFECTLY IMPOSSIBLE PERSON"
IV. "IT'S JUST THE VERY BIGGEST THING IN THE WORLD"
V. "QUESTION!"
VI. "I WAS THE FLAIL OF THE LORD"
VII. "TO-MORROW WE DISAPPEAR INTO THE UNKNOWN"
VIII. "THE OUTLYING PICKETS OF THE NEW WORLD"
IX. "WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN IT?"
X. "THE MOST WONDERFUL THINGS HAVE HAPPENED"
XI. "FOR ONCE I WAS THE HERO"
XII. "IT WAS DREADFUL IN THE FOREST"
XIII. "A SIGHT I SHALL NEVER FORGET"
XIV. "THOSE WERE THE REAL CONQUESTS"
XV. "OUR EYES HAVE SEEN GREAT WONDERS"
XVI. "A PROCESSION! A PROCESSION!"

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 6 in Professor Challenger. (standard series)

Followed by The Poison Belt.

This book is in Random Synapses: 100 Book Reading Challenge (2011). (community list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audioworks
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1912
ISBN: 0671577212
Page Count: 240

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