English · Intermediate
Read The Lost World in Englishwith every sentence explained
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1912
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About the book
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle was first published in 1912. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked intermediate and filed under science fiction and thriller and suspense. It runs to about 75,400 words.
Somewhere in the Amazon, the age of the dinosaurs never ended.
Young reporter Edward Malone wants to do something heroic to win the heart of the woman he loves. His editor sends him to interview Professor George Edward Challenger, a bad-tempered genius famous for punching journalists — who claims that prehistoric creatures are still alive on a hidden plateau in South America.
No one believes him. So Challenger sets off to prove it, with Malone, his sceptical rival Professor Summerlee and the daring big-game hunter Lord John Roxton. But reaching the plateau is only the beginning: once they are up there, they will have to find a way to survive — and a way back down.
Packed with humour and suspense, Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 adventure is the grandfather of Jurassic Park and every dinosaur story since.
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- First published
- 1912
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Science Fiction, Thriller and Suspense
- Length
- About 75,400 words
How it opens
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-in-law. 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 being an authority.
Reading The Lost World in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday English feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
