《失落的世界(外国文学经典)(插图本)》内容简介：19世纪与20世纪之交，车卓教授带领一个科学考察团，离开烟雾弥漫的伦敦，远赴南美雨林寻找时光停滞的传说之地——那里仍有恐龙漫步大地。同行的有车卓教授的学术劲敌萨马里教授、勇敢的猎人罗斯顿勋爵、年轻记者马龙。考察团将经历种种冒险，在失落的世界挣扎求存……
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《失落的世界(外国文学经典)(插图本)》这部很早就传入中国的世界畅销书整整影响了一代人。后来，那些精彩绝伦、引人入胜的侦探故事又以电视剧和电影的形式继续风靡世界。相信你在阅读《失落的世界（外国文学经典）（插图本）》候，你定会跟随作者一起经历一场足够刺激的冒险和印第安人与猿人之间的血腥大战。但是，你要像福尔摩斯一样相信自己对事物判断的**感觉。
《外国文学经典》系列汇集英文经典名著，版本精挑细选，装帧用心打造。作为*权威的英文原版图书，让广大英语及文学爱好者充分领略原汁原味的英语语言是该丛书经久不衰的魅力所在。
【前言】
这个历久弥新的冒险故事不仅为《金刚》和《侏罗纪公园》提供了灵感，而且仍是同类故事中最引人人胜的。
——美国《图书馆期刊》
【作者简介】
作者：（英国）柯南·道尔（Arthur Conan Doyle）
阿瑟·柯南·道尔Arthur ConanDoyle（1859-193）是英国著名小说家，因成功塑造歇洛克。福尔摩斯这一人物而成为侦探小说历*重要的作家之一。他曾在爱丁堡大学学习医学毕业后作为随船医生前往西非海岸，1882年回国后开业行医，在此期间开始写作。1887年《血字的研究》发表。道尔一生一共写了56篇侦探小说和4部中篇侦探小说，全部以福尔摩斯为主角。《失落的世界》是他的一部堪称经典的科幻小说充满了丰富的想象，场景离奇，引人入胜。
【目录】
Chaptet 1 There Are Heroisms All Round Us
Chaptet 2 Try Your Luek wifh Professor Challenger
Chaptet 3 He Is a Perfecfly Impossible Person
Chaptet 4 It's Just the Very Diggest Thing in the World
Chaptet 5 Ouesfion!
Chaptet 6 I Was the Flail of the Lord
Chaptet 7 Tomorrow We Disappear into the Unknown
Chaptet 8 The Ouflying Pickers of the New World
Chaptet 9 Who Could Have Foreseen It?
Chaptet 10 The Mosf Wonderful Things Have Happened
Chaptet 11 For Once I Was the Hero
Chaptet 12 It Was Dreadful in the Forest
Chaptet 13 A Sight I Shall Never Forger
Chaptet 14 Those Were the Real Conquesfs
Chaptet 15 Our Eyes Have Seen Greaf Wonders
Chaptet 16 A Procession! A Procession!
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For an hour or more that evening ! listened to his monotonouschirrupabout bad money driving out good, the token value of silver,the deprecia-tion of the rupee, and the true standards ofexchange.
Suppose,he cried, with feeble violence, 'that all the debts intheworld were called up simultaneously and immediate paymentinsistedupon. What, under our present conditions, would happenthen?
I gave the self-evident answer that I should be a ruined man,uponwhich he jumped from his chair, reproved me my habitual levity,whichmade it impossible for him to discuss any reasonable subjectin my presence,and bounced off out of the room to dress for aMasonic meeting.
At last I was alone with Gladys, and the moment of fate had come!All that evening I had felt like the soldier who awaits the signalwhich willsend him on a forlom hope, hope of victory and fear ofrepulse alternatingin his mind.
She sat with that proud, delicate profile of hers outlined againstthe redcurtain. How beautiful she was! And yet how aloofl We hadbeen friends,quite good friends; but never could I get beyond thesame comradeshipwhich I might have established with one of myfellow-reporters upon theGazette——perfectly frank, perfectlykindly, and perfectly unsexual. Myinstincts are all against a womanbeing too frank and at her ease with me.It is no compliment to aman. Where the real sex feeling begins, timidityand distrust areits companions, heritage from old wicked days when loveand violencewent often hand in hand.
