The Lost World and Other Thrilling Tales

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Overview

Has Professor Challenger really discovered a mysterious Jurassicage plateau untouched by civilization and still inhabited by dinosaurs? Spurred on by the woman he loves, young journalist Edward Malone eagerly joins the irascible professor on an expedition to South America to discover if this land is a place of treasure or one of terror filled with gruesome ape-men and frightening prehistoric creatures. In a tradition that stretches from Gulliver's Travels to Jurassic Park, The Lost World is a classic story of civilized man's encounter with the creatures of a lost time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442942554
Publisher:	ReadHowYouWant
Publication date:	07/16/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	622 KB

About the Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh and studied medicine. He began writing while he waited for his practice to grow and, with 1887's A Study in Scarlet, created Sherlock Holmes, one of the most famous literary characters of all time. He was a volunteer physician in the Boer War and wrote a book on spiritualism.

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1859

Date of Death:

July 7, 1930

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Crowborough, Sussex, England

Education:

Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885

Table of Contents

I	There are Heroisms All Round Us	9
II	Try your Luck with Professor Challenger	14
III	He is a Perfectly Impossible Person	21
IV	It's just the very Biggest Thing in the World	27
V	Question!	44
VI	I was the Flail of the Lord	55
VII	Tomorrow we Disappear into the Unknown	64
VIII	The Outlying Pickets of the New World	72
IX	Who could have Foreseen it?	83
X	The Most Wonderful Things have Happened	106
XI	For Once I was the Hero	120
XII	It was Dreadful in the Forest	136
XIII	A Sight which I shall Never Forget	149
XIV	Those were the Real Conquests	162
XV	Our Eyes have Seen Great Wonders	175
XVI	A Procession! A Procession!	191