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"
Readers rate it 3.8 (202 on Hardcover)
274 pages · Released Jan 14, 2003 · Modern Library
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The Lost World parent’s guide: what’s inside
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The Lost World is a classic adventure novel featuring exploration, prehistoric dangers, and encounters with dangerous creatures and hostile beings. While there is some violence inherent to survival encounters with dinosaurs and ape-men, it is not graphically depicted and fits the adventure-story genre rather than graphic action. The language and content reflect the early 1900s setting and are generally mild by modern standards, making this accessible to older elementary and middle-grade readers with interest in classic adventure fiction.
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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 a... 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.”
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ISBN 9780812967258 · Modern Library