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Title details for The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle - Available

The Lost World

by Arthur Conan Doyle
Matthew Rhys
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A classic fantasy adventure story from the creator of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World has been adapted to film numerous times, and was the inspiration for Jurassic Park. This gripping recording retains all the excitement and suspense of the original book.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Professor Challenger

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    April 3, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792786313
      • File size: 220299 KB
      • Duration: 07:38:57

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from March 31, 2008
      In 1912, Doyle took his Victorian readers deep into the South American jungles where, high atop a treacherous plateau, a small band of British explorers encountered a terrifying world of prehistoric creatures long thought lost to the sands of time. The adventurers included a young newspaper reporter, Ed Malone; the swashbuckling aristocrat, Lord Roxton; the skeptical scientist, Professor Summerlee; and the brilliant and bombastic Professor Challenger, who leads the party. Doyle unfolds high adventure at its best with fantastic encounters with pterodactyls, stegosaurs and cunning ape -men. Glen McCready's performance captures the time and tone of Doyle's material perfectly without straying into melodrama. He nicely balances Malone's sense of youthful wonder with the professors' scientific pragmatism, while fully exploiting the humor spread strategically throughout, planting numerous chuckles among the thrills. McCready's entertaining reading more than fulfills the author's introductory wish to “give one hour of joy to the boy who's half a man, or the man who's half a boy.”

    • AudioFile Magazine
      THE LOST WORLD (1912) marked the first Professor Challenger novel and a new series for Arthur Conan Doyle. The narrator is newspaperman Edward Malone, who chronicles an expedition up the Amazon to verify the existence of a prehistoric world populated by dinosaurs. Michael Prichard handles the dialogue with a good bit of bluster, which to be sure, forms a big part of Doyle's larger-than-life characters. Looking for ways to downplay some of this stridency, as Prichard admirably does with the narration, brings some necessary subtlety to a melodrama that itself can seem like something of a fossil. G.H. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      This adventure story of finding a South American "lost" world is filled with creatures and dinosaurs which rival those of Jurassic Park. No high-tech special effects are included, but Conan Doyle's superb descriptive powers are vividly conveyed in Whitworth's narration. Given the Victorian setting and the formal speech patterns of the English scientists and their colleagues, this IS an accomplishment. All the humor of the text is brought out in Whitworth's narrative style. The accents are exaggerated but effective, and complement this presentation for Conan Doyle fans or other period adventure lovers who may not have experienced this title. R.F.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      The scriptwriters made a mistake in changing fundamentals of the classic Conan Doyle dinosaur story. In making an elderly male professor into a young woman, they made the tape sound like a Grade B movie. In removing a few characters, they made it impossible for the listener to understand how the explorers' on-the-spot notes reached Great Britain. There are additional continuity and character problems. But the sound effects and music are well chosen, and the actors fill out their roles with believable ease, particularly Leonard Nimoy as an irascible newspaper editor. This was recorded before a live audience and then embellished for audio. D.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Despite tacky packaging and brazenly immodest production credits, Ziggurat Productions' small catalog of "audio movies" are, for the most part, well done. While their marketing may be low-budget, they pull out the stops when it comes to sound quality and production. Their "movies" are a treat for the ears. Ziggurat's full-cast dramatization of Arthur Conan Doyle's THE LOST WORLD is marvelous; believable performances and fine music accompany this romantic adventure of an underground continent filled with prehistoric life. S.E.S. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      The creator of Sherlock Holmes delivers a classic adventure fantasy in this tale of a trip by journalists, scientists, and adventurers to investigate rumors of dinosaurs on a mysterious plateau deep in a mythical South American jungle. Much fun and over-the-top adventure ensue. The author is ably supported by Glenn McCready, who delivers a reading very much in the nineteenth-century style. He plays up the characters' big personalities and celebrates the rather orotund style of the writing, which isn't as tight as in the Holmes books. Not for modern-fiction-only readers, this book will appeal most to lovers of nineteenth-century literature. A.C.S. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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