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The Lost World
Chapters (18)
- Epigraph 0:00
- Foreword 0:12
- I: There Are Heroisms All Round Us 0:37
- II: Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger 14:25
- III: He Is a Perfectly Impossible Person 30:20
- IV: It’s Just the Very Biggest Thing in the World 46:27
- V: Question! 1:22:19
- VI: I Was the Flail of the Lord 1:51:33
- VII: Tomorrow We Disappear Into the Unknown 2:13:12
- VIII: The Outlying Pickets of the New World 2:35:10
- IX: Who Could Have Foreseen It? 3:04:30
- X: The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened 3:56:21
- XI: For Once I Was the Hero 4:28:16
- XII: It Was Dreadful in the Forest 5:03:59
- XIII: A Sight Which I Shall Never Forget 5:40:01
- XIV: Those Were the Real Conquests 6:13:53
- XV: Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders 6:47:15
- XVI: A Procession! A Procession! 7:24:16
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Even though Doyle is most famous for his Sherlock stories, he was also a prolific novelist, and The Lost World is one of his more famous non-Sherlock novels. Like many novels of the day, it was first published serially.
In it we meet a group of adventurers who head to a deep South American jungle to explore rumors of long-lost dinosaurs. The plot is driven by their journey, discoveries, and subsequent narrow escape. Notably, The Lost World is the novel in which Doyle’s popular recurring character, Professor Challenger, is introduced.
Doyle based many of the characters and locations on people and places he was familiar with: the journalist Ed Malone was modeled on E. D. Morel, and Lord John Roxton on Roger Casement; the Lost World itself was based on descriptions of Bolivia in letters sent to Doyle by his friend Percy Harrison Fawcett.
The novel remains hugely influential and widely adapted today. The title might even remind modern readers of a certain very famous movie franchise about dinosaur theme parks!