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Оглавление
Артур Конан Дойл. The Lost World
Foreword
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 V “Question!”
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!”
Отрывок из книги
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 E. D. Malone desires to state that both the injunction for restraint and the libel action have been withdrawn unreservedly by Professor G. E. Challenger, who, being satisfied that no criticism or comment in this book is meant in an offensive spirit, has guaranteed that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.
For an hour or more that evening I listened to his monotonous chirrup about bad money driving out good, the token value of silver, the depreciation of the rupee, and the true standards of exchange.
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I should have laughed only that I had a vision of our doing another Catharine-wheel down the passage.
“No doubt,” said I, “no doubt,” as one humors an imbecile. “I confess, however,” I added, “that this tiny human figure puzzles me. If it were an Indian we could set it down as evidence of some pigmy race in America, but it appears to be a European in a sun-hat.”
