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The Lost World: Chapter 2 – Try your luck with Professor Challenger

I always liked McArdle, the crabbed, old, round-backed, red-headed news editor, and I rather hoped that he liked me. Of course, Beaumont was the real boss; but he lived in the rarefied atmosphere of some Olympian height from which he could distinguish nothing smaller than an international crisis or a split in the Cabinet. Sometimes […]

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The Lost World: Chapter 1 – There Are Heroisms All Round Us

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

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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Written in 1902, The Hound of the Baskervilles was the third novel (in the series of four) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Narrated an early case of the dead detective, the murder weapon in the story is an animal. Chapter 1 – Mr. Sherlock Holmes Chapter 2 – The Curse of Baskervilles Chapter 3 –

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