Project Gutenberg #139
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
1912Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger adventure, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg plaintext.
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Chapter 1 — CHAPTER I "There Are Heroisms All Round Us" Central question Why does Malone want to leave his ordinary life, and what sort of heroism is the book asking him to recognize? Main argument Malone begins...
he knows, and
ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the
great adventures and the great rewards. Behold me, then, at the office
of the Daily Gazette, on the staff of which I was a most insignificant
unit, with the settled determination that very night, if possible, to
find the quest which should be worthy of my Gladys! Was it hardness,
was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own
glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to
ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.