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Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World

Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Language
English
First published
1912
Reading time
329 minutes
Chapters
17 chapters

About this book

Edward Malone, a young London reporter, wants to do something brave enough to impress the woman he loves.

His editor sends him to interview Professor Challenger, a famously bad-tempered scientist who claims that prehistoric animals are still alive on a plateau deep in the South American forest. Soon Malone, Challenger, a doubting rival professor and an adventurous lord set out to prove it. Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel is full of danger and comedy, and it inspired a century of stories about dinosaurs in hidden places. Read it for the thrills and for Challenger, one of fiction's great blusterers.

I have wrought my simple plan\ If I give one hour of joy\ To the boy who's half a man,\ Or the man who's half a boy.

Foreword

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  • Source

    Project Gutenberg (eBook #139)

    Text version

    Project Gutenberg eBook #139 (updated 29 October 2024), downloaded 7 November 2026. The title page, copyright line, contents list and repeated titles were not imported. Doyle's verse epigraph and his mock foreword are kept together under an added "Foreword" heading (the foreword's narrow centred lines are joined into one paragraph), and each chapter number is placed in front of the chapter's own quoted title. The 16 chapters are unchanged.

  • License

    Public domain

    Copyright status last verified: 9 November 2026

  • Category

    Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Chapters

17 chapters
  1. Foreword1 min
  2. I. "There Are Heroisms All Round Us"10 min
  3. II. "Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger"11 min
  4. III. "He is a Perfectly Impossible Person"11 min
  5. IV. "It's Just the very Biggest Thing in the World"24 min
  6. V. "Question!"20 min
  7. VI. "I was the Flail of the Lord"15 min
  8. VII. "To-morrow we Disappear into the Unknown"16 min
  9. VIII. "The Outlying Pickets of the New World"20 min
  10. IX. "Who could have Foreseen it?"36 min
  11. X. "The most Wonderful Things have Happened"22 min
  12. XI. "For once I was the Hero"25 min
  13. XII. "It was Dreadful in the Forest"25 min
  14. XIII. "A Sight which I shall Never Forget"24 min
  15. XIV. "Those Were the Real Conquests"24 min
  16. XV. "Our Eyes have seen Great Wonders"27 min
  17. XVI. "A Procession! A Procession!"28 min

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