THE COMPLETE PROFESSOR CHALLENGER SERIES. Arthur Conan Doyle
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Название: THE COMPLETE PROFESSOR CHALLENGER SERIES
Автор: Arthur Conan Doyle
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 9788027219117
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Arthur Conan Doyle
THE COMPLETE PROFESSOR CHALLENGER SERIES
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection (Including The Lost World, The Poison Belt, The Land of Mists…)
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-1911-7
Table of Contents
Memories and Adventures: An Autobiography
Professor Challenger Series
The Lost World
I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who’s half a man,
Or the man who’s half a boy.
Chapter I. “There Are Heroisms All Round Us”
Chapter II. “Try Your Luck with Professor Challenger”
Chapter III. “He is a Perfectly Impossible Person”
Chapter IV. “It’s Just the very Biggest Thing in the World”
Chapter VI. “I was the Flail of the Lord”
Chapter VII. “To-morrow we Disappear into the Unknown”
Chapter VIII. “The Outlying Pickets of the New World”
Chapter IX. “Who could have Foreseen it?”
Chapter X. “The most Wonderful Things have Happened”
Chapter XI. “For once I was the Hero”
Chapter XII. “It was Dreadful in the Forest”
Chapter XIII. “A Sight which I shall Never Forget”
Chapter XIV. “Those Were the Real Conquests”
Chapter XV. “Our Eyes have seen Great Wonders”
Chapter XVI. “A Procession! A Procession!”
Foreword
Mr. E. D. Malone desires to state that both the injunction for restraint and the libel action have been withdrawn unreservedly by Professor G. E. Challenger, who, being satisfied that no criticism or comment in this book is meant in an offensive spirit, has guaranteed that he will place no impediment to its publication and circulation.
Chapter I.
“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-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. If anything could have driven me from Gladys, it would have been the thought of such a father-inlaw. I am convinced that he really believed in his heart that I came round to the Chestnuts three days a week for the pleasure of his company, and very especially to hear his views upon bimetallism, a subject upon which he was by way of СКАЧАТЬ