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The Lost World

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
By: (1859-1930)

A journalist who undertakes a life threatening mission to impress the woman he loves, a mysterious plateau in South America that none of the locals dare to enter and an adventurous English aristocrat are all charectors you will encounter in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. With Dinosaurs, ape-men, diamonds and secret tunnels the book is filled with enough action, excitement, drama and adventure to go around.

For Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts, Conan Doyle's hero in this book Professor Challenger is almost the antithesis of the cerebral sleuth. The squat, feisty, quarrelsome, boastful Challenger with the “face and beard of an Assyrian Bull” and a “stunted Hercules” is far removed from the eccentric, intellectual resident of 221B Baker Street with his Stradivarius violin and swirling tobacco mists.

The plot of The Lost World was not entirely new even when it was first published in 1912. The theme of an expedition to a remote region of the earth, hitherto undiscovered by civilization, was earlier portrayed in Jules Verne's 1864 novel Journey to the Center of the Earth. However, with The Lost World, Conan Doyle explores several other themes as well. The idea of civilization, theories about the origin of life on earth and the various motives that people who seek adventure may have are some of the interesting concepts encountered here.

In this story, Edward Malone is a young journalist who is sent to interview the bizarre claims made by Professor George Edward Challenger, who claims to have made an exciting discovery in South America. Ridiculed and reviled by his fellow scientists, the professor is in no mood to be pleasant. However, as Malone soon finds out, the claims are certainly worth an expedition in spite of the man's nasty temperament and insulting behavior. Malone himself wants to win the admiration of the lovely Gladys Hungerton. What follows is a strange, hazardous and rip-roaring adventure that takes Malone, the professor and a motley crew of adventurers into unknown territory.

The Lost World is the first in the series of three novels and two short stories featuring Professor Challenger. They reflect Conan Doyle's deep interest in scientific research and the Victorian preoccupation with adventure and discovery. The megalomaniac professor is reputedly based on one of Conan Doyle's own teachers at Edinburgh.

The book holds great appeal for young and older readers and has been extensively adapted for stage, screen, radio and TV.


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Reviews (Rated: 5 Stars - 18 reviews)

Reviewer: - May 28, 2020
Subject: Story/Reader
an amazing, entertaining story and a GREAT reader. thank you and i definitely recommend it
Reviewer: - August 24, 2018
Subject: The lost world
absolutely fantastic story so wonderfully read. Thank you
Reviewer: - January 11, 2018
Good reader and entertaining story. Amazing to think that people really think man was ever anything but man! Professing themselves to be wise they became fools!
Reviewer: - June 14, 2017
Subject: The Lost World
Great story and the reader was excellent.
Reviewer: - February 15, 2017
Subject: Reader
This is an excellent reader. This is the second or third book that I have listened to him, and he keeps my attention the whole time!
Reviewer: - July 24, 2016
Subject: Great
Great story and read
Reviewer: - February 17, 2016
Subject: The Lost World
This is a great book that has stood the stand of time. The reader was an excellent reader. Made it that much more enjoyable to read. Thank you.
Reviewer: - December 19, 2014
Subject: The Lost World
Great fun, well written, with humor ...great reader !
Reviewer: - September 15, 2014
This was an ok book, narrated well.
Reviewer: - June 23, 2014
Subject: The lost world
Great read,. Note for end "just like a woman."
Reviewer: - February 18, 2014
The reader did a great job with this timeless story that will please scientific and casual minds.
Reviewer: - October 20, 2013
Subject: The lost world
Excellent reader and excellent books.
Reviewer: - July 13, 2013
I devoured each word like a starving man. Full marks!
Reviewer: - July 10, 2013
Subject: A great story - excellently read
Really a great story with fascinating twists and turns and engaging characters. The wonderful reading contributes to the pleasure.
Reviewer: - June 22, 2013
Excellent, very well read!
Reviewer: - June 12, 2013
Subject: Such great writing.
So good to listen to one reader. Such a great story!!
Reviewer: - April 27, 2013
Subject: Review
Loved it! Great job on the reading of this book.
Reviewer: - February 18, 2013
Subject: Good story
A very good story and if I remember correctly, very well read.


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