The Lost World (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- First Published: 1912
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—evolutionary fantasy
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: London, England, and South America
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Twentieth century, England or English people, Brazil or Brazilians, London, South America or South Americans, Prehistoric humans, Evolution, Prehistoric animals
- Locales: London, England, South America
The Plot
Seeking to win the hand of fickle Gladys Hun-gerton, Edward Malone, a twenty-three-year-old newspaper reporter in London, interviews notorious professor of zoology George Edward Challenger. Challenger has startled the scientific world by asserting publicly that prehistoric creatures of the Jurassic period still exist.
Challenger and Malone travel to the wilds of Brazil with Professor Summerlee, a quarrelsome and skeptical comparative anatomist; Lord John Roxton, an accomplished hunter of big game; two “halfbreeds”; several South American Indians; and a...
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