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"There Are Heroisms All Round Us"
Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth, a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-nat…
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"Try Your Luck With Professor Challenger"
I always liked McArdle, the crabbed, old, round-backed, red-headed news editor, and I rather hoped that he liked me. Of course, Beaumont wa…
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"He Is A Perfectly Impossible Person"
My friend's fear or hope was not destined to be realized. When I called on Wednesday there was a letter with the West Kensington postmark u…
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The Lost World - "It's Just The Very Biggest Thing In The World" - (1)
Hardly was it shut when Mrs. Challenger darted out from the dining-room. The small woman was in a furious temper. She barred her husband's…
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The Lost World - "It's Just The Very Biggest Thing In The World" - (2)
"Apart from exaggeration, he is certainly a well-grown specimen," said the Professor, complacently. "But," I cried, "surely the whole exper…
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The Lost World - "Question!" - (1)
What with the physical shocks incidental to my first interview with Professor Challenger and the mental ones which accompanied the second,…
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The Lost World - "Question!" - (2)
"This is really intolerable!" he cried, glaring across the platform. "I must ask you, Professor Challenger, to cease these ignorant and unm…
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"I Was The Flail Of The Lord"
Lord John Roxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery. At the end of a l…
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"To-Morrow We Disappear Into The Unknown"
I will not bore those whom this narrative may reach by an account of our luxurious voyage upon the Booth liner, nor will I tell of our week…
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The Lost World - "The Outlying Pickets Of The New World" - (1)
Our friends at home may well rejoice with us, for we are at our goal, and up to a point, at least, we have shown that the statement of Prof…
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The Lost World - "The Outlying Pickets Of The New World" - (2)
"Exactly. It was an Assai palm which I took for my landmark. The secret opening is half a mile onwards upon the other side of the river. Th…
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The Lost World - "Who Could Have Foreseen It?" - (1)
A dreadful thing has happened to us. Who could have foreseen it? I cannot foresee any end to our troubles. It may be that we are condemned…
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The Lost World - "Who Could Have Foreseen It?" - (2)
The cliffs upon the farther side had lost their ruddy tint, being chocolate-brown in color; the vegetation was more scattered along the top…
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The Lost World - "The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened" - (1)
The most wonderful things have happened and are continually happening to us. All the paper that I possess consists of five old note-books a…
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The Lost World - "The Most Wonderful Things Have Happened" - (2)
"Nunc dimittis!" he cried at last. "What will they say in England of this?" "My dear Summerlee, I will tell you with great confidence exact…
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The Lost World - "For Once I Was The Hero" - (1)
Lord John Roxton was right when he thought that some specially toxic quality might lie in the bite of the horrible creatures which had atta…
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The Lost World - "For Once I Was The Hero" - (2)
"What we ought to be doing to-day, to-morrow, and all the time," said he, "is finding some way out of the trap into which we have fallen. Y…
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The Lost World - "It Was Dreadful In The Forest" - (1)
I have said or perhaps I have not said, for my memory plays me sad tricks these days that I glowed with pride when three such men as my com…
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The Lost World - "It Was Dreadful In The Forest" - (2)
Suddenly I remembered that I had a tin box of wax-vestas in my pocket. Striking one of them, I was able at last to form some opinion of thi…
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The Lost World - "It Was Dreadful In The Forest" - (3)
"I think you have had the escape of your life, young fellah my lad. It was catchin' those Indians that put you clean out of their heads, el…
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The Lost World - "Those Were The Real Conquests" - (1)
We had imagined that our pursuers, the ape-men, knew nothing of our brush-wood hiding-place, but we were soon to find out our mistake. Ther…
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The Lost World - "Those Were The Real Conquests" - (2)
"They may be undeveloped types," said he, stroking his beard and looking round at them, "but their deportment in the presence of their supe…
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The Lost World - "Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders" - (1)
I write this from day to day, but I trust that before I come to the end of it, I may be able to say that the light shines, at last, through…
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The Lost World - "Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders" - (2)
Challenger had been in the habit of walking off by himself every morning and returning from time to time with looks of portentous solemnity…
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The Lost World - "A Procession! A Procession!" - (1)
I should wish to place upon record here our gratitude to all our friends upon the Amazon for the very great kindness and hospitality which…
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The Lost World - "A Procession! A Procession!" - (2)
"DR. ILLINGWORTH (rising): 'Our point is that such a collection might have been made in other places than a prehistoric plateau.' (Applause…