The Lost World

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1. "There Are Heroisms All Round Us"
   Chapter I Foreword Mr. E. D. Malone desires to state that both the injunction for restraint and the libel action have been withdrawn unrese…
2. "Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger"
   Chapter II "Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger" I always liked McArdle, the crabbed, old, round-backed, red-headed news editor, and I…
3. "He is a Perfectly Impossible Person"
   Chapter III "He is a Perfectly Impossible Person" My friend's fear or hope was not destined to be realized. When I called on Wednesday ther…
4. "It's Just the very Biggest Thing in the World" (1)
   Chapter IV "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…
5. "It's Just the very Biggest Thing in the World" (2)
   "What did you do?" My flippancy was all gone. This massive man compelled one's attention and respect. "I overcame the extreme reluctance of…
6. "Question!" (1)
   Chapter V "Question!" (1) What with the physical shocks incidental to my first interview with Professor Challenger and the mental ones whic…
7. "Question!" (2)
   All this is from my hurried notes taken at the time, which give little notion of the absolute chaos to which the assembly had by this time…
8. "I was the Flail of the Lord"
   Chapter VI "I was the Flail of the Lord" Lord John Roxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingy portals of the famou…
9. "To-morrow we Disappear into the Unknown"
   Chapter VII "To-morrow we Disappear into the Unknown" I will not bore those whom this narrative may reach by an account of our luxurious vo…
10. "The Outlying Pickets of the New World" (1)
    Chapter VIII "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…
11. "The Outlying Pickets of the New World" (2)
    On the second day after leaving our canoes we found that the whole character of the country changed. Our road was persistently upwards, and…
12. "Who could have Foreseen it?" (1)
    Chapter IX "Who could have Foreseen it?" (1) A dreadful thing has happened to us. Who could have foreseen it? I cannot foresee any end to o…
13. "Who could have Foreseen it?" (2)
    You will realize as you read it, my dear Mr. McArdle, and possibly for the first time that the paper has not sent me on a wild-goose chase,…
14. "Who could have Foreseen it?" (3)
    "I have been a blind simpleton," said he, bitterly, "It's my folly that has brought you all into this trouble. I should have remembered tha…
15. "The most Wonderful Things have Happened" (1)
    Chapter X "The most Wonderful Things have Happened" (1) The most wonderful things have happened and are continually happening to us. All th…
16. "The most Wonderful Things have Happened" (2)
    Our professors would gladly have stayed there all day, so entranced were they by this opportunity of studying the life of a prehistoric age…
17. "For once I was the Hero" (1)
    Chapter XI "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…
18. "For once I was the Hero" (2)
    "We have spent two long days in exploration," said he, "and we are no wiser as to the actual geography of the place than when we started. I…
19. "It was Dreadful in the Forest" (1)
    Chapter XII "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…
20. "It was Dreadful in the Forest" (2)
    As I emerged from my unconsciousness—which could not, I think, have lasted more than a few minutes—I was aware of a most dreadful and penet…
21. "A Sight which I shall Never Forget" (1)
    Chapter XIII "A Sight which I shall Never Forget" (1) Just as the sun was setting upon that melancholy night I saw the lonely figure of the…
22. "A Sight which I shall Never Forget" (2)
    In front of and around this dejected group of prisoners were several ape-men, who watched them closely and made all escape impossible. Then…
23. "Those Were the Real Conquests" (1)
    Chapter XIV "Those Were the Real Conquests" (1) We had imagined that our pursuers, the ape-men, knew nothing of our brush-wood hiding-place…
24. "Those Were the Real Conquests" (2)
    Summerlee had lain down and slept upon the sand, but we others roamed round the edge of the water, seeking to learn something more of this…
25. "Our Eyes have seen Great Wonders" (1)
    Chapter XV "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 a…
26. "Our Eyes have seen Great Wonders" (2)
    "So you shall," said Challenger. "For some days I have exerted my whole brain force upon the problem of how we shall descend from these cli…
27. "A Procession! A Procession!"
    Chapter XVI "A Procession! A Procession!" I should wish to place upon record here our gratitude to all our friends upon the Amazon for the…
28. The New World — Great Meeting at the Queen's Hall — Scenes of Uproar — Extraordinary Incident — What Was It? — Nocturnal Riot in Regent Street — (Special) (1)
    "The much-discussed meeting of the Zoological Institute, convened to hear the report of the Committee of Investigation sent out last year t…
29. The New World — Great Meeting at the Queen's Hall — Scenes of Uproar — Extraordinary Incident — What Was It? — Nocturnal Riot in Regent Street — (Special) (2)
    "It was at this point that the sensation of the evening arose—a sensation so dramatic that it can never have been paralleled in the history…