Arthur Conan Doyle

Anne Collins

The Lost World

being an account of the recent amazing adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr. E.D. Malone of the Daily gazette

The lost world

Sandra

The beginning was so boring and it took far to long before the story actually begun. The last 40-60 pages was much better and I really enjoyed them but overall alright Ig

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, “the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended” and numerous prehistoric creatures and ape-men have survived. “Just as Sherlock Holmes set the standard—and in some sense established the formula—for the detective story . . . , so too has The Lost World set the standard and the formula for fantasy-adventure stories . . . ,” Michael Crichton writes in his Introduction. “The tone and techniques that Conan Doyle first refined in The Lost World have become standard narrative procedures in popular entertainment of the present day.”

Pranav

Quite an exciting and lively book, atleast in the initial and middle parts. Hilarious at times. Becomes a little predictable and slow towards the end, but a superb story worth reading atleast once in your lifetime. Some great quotes on leadership and dealing with difficult circumstances.

Rebeca Keren Nuñez

Me daba mucha curiosidad, además porque es claramente anterior a las películas de parque jurásico y los libros. Es entretenida y uno puede rastrear influencias a lo que vino después. Además me daba mucha curiosidad leer algo del autor y que no fuera sobre Sherlock Holmes.

Hasmik Gyulumyan

Շերլոկը բարով-խերով «վերջացրինք» անցանք Չելլենջերին ))

Իրոք, շատ լավ գիրք էր։ Առեղծվածային ինչ-որ բան կար մեջը, որ անընդհատ ինձ ձգում էր դեպի իրան. Դրա համար էլ շատ արագ կարդացի մինչև վերջ։ 
Մեր տանը նստած, ես էլ հերոսների հետ հասել էի Ամազոնի ջունգլիներ ու փնտրում էի Կորուսյալ աշխարհը…

Bryan Alexander

I read The Lost World when I was a kid, I think. The story is very familiar. Maybe I read part of it, or an abridgement, or a comic version. Or I'm confusing it with the many imitations, like Edgar Rice Burroughs' Land That Time Forgot (1918, a mere 6 years after Doyle's novel). Whatever my first encounter, my reread last week was a lot of fun.

The Lost World almost crackles with manic energy. The basic idea, finding a lost dinosaur land, would have been enough for any novelist. But Doyle adds a good backstory, bolts on a fun conclusion, and also populates the tale with solid characters, especially the awesome professor Challenger. *And* the action is manic and well told. We begin with Challenger beating up reporters (!) and never pause. 

The novel also offers a fascinating microcosm of colonialism during the end of its global heyday. Our heroes (all male) leap into other societies, kill at will, commit something close to genocide, enslave an entire species, and also run off with precious gems. For which they are celebrated.

For me, reading about WWI, The Lost World is a fine text for the war's leadup. It's a book fairly obsessed with characters forcing themselves to be more manly, more virile, more violent, and more daring. Characters are quick to violence and ready to destroy... yet all within a meticulously maintained social hierarchy. You can see August 1914 and the western front about to appear.

I said more about this book on an upcoming SFFaudio podcast, and will defer to that when it appears.

Le Monde perdu

Index Librorum Prohibitorum

Александър Шурбанов

Христо Чешмеджиев

Професор Чалънджър изтегли капака на сандъка, надникна вътре, щракна няколко пъти с пръсти и бе чут от пресата да увещава някого: „Хайде, пили, пили!“ След миг някакво ужасно, отвратително същество се появи оттам с драскане и тропот и кацна върху страничната стена на сандъка. Дори неочакваното пропадане на херцога на Дърам в оркестъра в този момент не можа да отвлече вкамененото внимание на огромната аудитория. Муцуната на чудовището приличаше на най-странен църковен орнамент, създаден от болното въображение на някой средновековен строител. То изглеждаше зло и страшно, с малки червени очи, ярки като горящ въглен. В дългата му свирепа уста, която беше полуотворена, имаше два реда зъби като на акула. Рамената му бяха сгърбени и заметнати с нещо, което приличаше на овехтял сив шал. Това бе самият дявол от нашето детство! В аудиторията настъпи хаос ‐ някой пищеше, две дами от първия ред паднаха от столовете си в несвяст, а мнозина от президиума последваха председателя в оркестъра. По едно време имаше опасност от обща паника. Професор Чалънджър вдигна ръце, за да успокои развълнуваното множество...

The Lost World

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