The Lost World -- Arthur Conan Doyle

In <b>The Lost World</b>, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger--a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction--Challenger and his party embark on an expedition to a remote Amazonian plateau where, as the good professor puts it, "the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended" and numerous prehistoric creatures and ape-men have survived. "Just as Sherlock Holmes set the standard--and in some sense established the formula--for the detective story . . ., so too has <b>The Lost World</b><i> </i>set the standard and the formula for fantasy-adventure stories . . .," Michael Crichton writes in his Introduction. "The tone and techniques that Conan Doyle first refined in <b>The Lost World</b> have become standard narrative procedures in popular entertainment of the present day."<br><br><b>Author:</b> Arthur Conan Doyle<br><b>Publisher:</b> Modern Library<br><b>Published:</b> 01/14/2003<br><b>Pages:</b> 272<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.43lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.10h x 5.24w x 0.56d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780812967258<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 7.8<br><b>Point Value:</b> 13<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>36256 / Lost World<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Michael Crichton</b>'s novels include <i>The Andromeda Strain</i>, <i>Congo</i>, <i>Jurassic Park</i>, <i>The Lost World</i>, and <i>Timeline</i>; he is also the creator of the televisi