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The Lost World (Pocket Penguin Classics) (Paperback)

by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics (7 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141031298
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141031293
  • Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 11.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 124,556 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A land before time - a journey beyond belief … Unlucky in love, but desperate to prove himself in an adventure, journalist Ed Malone is sent to test the infamous and hot-tempered Professor Challenger on his bizarre South American expedition findings - not least his sketches of a strange plateau and the monstrous creatures that appear to live there. But rather than being angry at his questions, Challenger invites him along on his next field trip. Malone is delighted: until it becomes clear that the Professor was telling the truth about the terrible lost world he has discovered. Will they all survive the terrifying creatures on the island? And will anyone ever believe what they saw there?

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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was educated at Stonyhurst and Edinburgh, became a doctor and practised at Southsea between 1882-90. He is chiefly remembered for his celebrated creation of the amateur detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and foil, Dr Watson. Philip Gooden is a writer and journalist, who has published on popular classic fiction.

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4.0 out of 5 stars More than just Sherlock Holmes !, 21 Jan 2009
By Mr. H. F. Murden (New Barnet, Herts, UK) - See all my reviews
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If you desire an entertaining, fast moving adventure story with which to while away a few hours then this book is for you.

The tale recounts the exciting scientific expedition of a disparate group of Englishmen (two very argumentative and opinionated scientists, a big-game hunter and a newspaper journalist) to an inaccessible Amazonion plateau which is home to a selection of prehistoric dinosaurs and apemen. Danger, excitement, thrills and spills abound in Maple White Land.

The action is complemented by Arthur Conan Doyle's sharply drawn characters and his vivid descriptions of the remote land they are exploring. A classic adventure story to be enjoyed by young and old alike, this new edition with it's retro style cover is highly recommended.
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4.0 out of 5 stars "The jungle reclaims its own.", 14 April 2009
By Mary Whipple (New England) - See all my reviews
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Fans of the Sherlock Holmes series may be as surprised as I was by the complete change of style that this novel represents for its author. Gone are the formulaic and formal language, the stilted dialogue, and the gamesmanship between author and reader that characterize the Holmes novels, however delightful and successful those may be as mysteries. Instead, we see Doyle letting his imagination run free in a sci-fi romp that is both fun and funny, and often thoughtful. Written in 1912, during an eight-year hiatus from his Sherlock Holmes novels, and six years after his last "historical novel," The Lost World is the first of five works involving temperamental Professor Edward Challenger, a scientist investigating evolution and related subjects.

Challenger is a scientific outcast, vilified for his most recent paper, in which he claimed to have seen dinosaurs and other pre-historic creatures in a remote area of South America, but which he refuses to locate on a map. Blaming the press for much of the controversy over his research, he despises reporters, and regularly assaults them. Young Ed Malone, a reporter looking for more excitement than he is getting on his regular beat, manages to make a connection with Challenger, after passing a test of his mettle.

Along with two other scientists, Elizabeth Summerlee and Lord John Roxton, they with Challenger to the mysterious plateau in Brazil where he claims to have seen extraordinary beasts believed dead for millions of years. Malone's newspaper, which partially funded the expedition, expects him to send daily reports of his adventures by messenger back to "civilization. These form much of the novel's narrative.

The place where Challenger has made his discoveries, which the other scientists are soon able to verify, is at the base of a high plateau in the jungle which has protected it from intrusion by man. This self-contained universe has protected creatures that have become extinct elsewhere. The scientists' often death-defying thrills--with canoes going over falls, shooting by headhunters, vengeance taken by one of the guides for past crimes, a war to the death between two separate, but related, species on the evolutionary tree, attacks by pre-historic creatures, and even a love story--make this novel non-stop fun to read. Far more "relaxed" in style and more imaginative in content than the novels for which Doyle is now (justifiably) famous, The Lost World, written almost a hundred years ago, builds on our universal spirit of adventure and our never-ending fascination with dinosaurs and their behavior. n Mary Whipple

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4.0 out of 5 stars Gone but not forgotten, 11 April 2009
This story feels like it should be set in Victorian times, but in fact was written in 1912 and even references motor cars. The tale is about a famous scientist who claims that he has discovered a lost world in South America where dinosaurs still exist. Mocked by fellow scientists and the public at large, the scientist challenges volunteers to visit the lost world. One of those volunteers, a young journalist, accepts the challenge to prove he is a man of adventure to his girlfriend, a woman who has told him she will only marry such a gung-ho type. The rest of the book is taken up with the trip to the lost world and the lost world itself. I don't want to spoil the narrative so won't go into detail. However, the lost world is an amazing place and its existence not beyond the bounds of possibility, particularly at the time the book was written, when there still remained unkown territories on the earth. The levels of excitement and terror are palapable throughout, and the eeriness and sense of foreboding of the lost world are all beautifully described by Conan Doyle. The fact that this is a short book with no padding means that the reader is fully exposed to the adventure and fully immersed in it. Not an all time classic, but a memorable and exciting read.
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