20 Lost World Classics
Twenty Foundational Tales of Hidden Civilizations, Subterranean Empires, Prehistoric Peril, and Cosmic MysteryBy Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard, H. G. Wells, James De Mille, H. P. Lovecraft, Abraham Merritt, Edward Bulwer Lytton, William Scott-Elliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jonathan Swift, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, J. Allan Dunn, Charles John Cutcliffe, Samuel Butler, David Franklin Powell, Will N. Harben, Carlton Dawe
Length160h 4m
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20 Lost World Classics gathers a capacious tradition of speculative adventure in which concealed continents, vanished civilizations, prehistoric survivals, and utopian or dystopian enclaves become laboratories for wonder and critique. Across romances, voyages extraordinaires, Gothic fantasies, satires, scientific fictions, and imperial adventure narratives, the volume traces the lost-world motif from early modern imaginative travel to twentieth-century pulp-inflected extravagance. Its memorable descents beneath the earth, encounters with isolated peoples, and expeditions into unmapped regions reveal both the exhilaration and the ideological tensions of discovery literature. The contributors represent a remarkable cross-section of British, American, and European popular and canonical writing. Their work intersects with Victorian scientific romance, imperial romance, Gothic terror, utopian speculation, Darwinian debate, and the emerging conventions of science fiction and fantasy. Together, these varied voices demonstrate how the "unknown" could serve as a setting for anthropological curiosity, social satire, technological prophecy, racial anxiety, ecological imagination, and pure narrative suspense. The anthology's chronological and stylistic breadth makes the lost world visible not as a fixed formula but as an evolving cultural fantasy. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this collection offers an exceptional single-volume introduction to a foundational imaginative tradition. Readers will find abundant material for comparing narrative methods, historical assumptions, and competing visions of exploration, while enjoying the sustained dialogue among adventure, criticism, terror, and marvel.
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GenreScience Fiction
Length160 hrs 4 mins
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Publish dateAug 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Spy Thrillers & Detective Novels: The Web, The Green God, The Film of Fear, The Ivory Snuff Box, The Blue Lights & The Brute (Annotated)
2A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
3CHAPTER I — THE FINDING OF THE COPPER CYLINDER
4CHAPTER IV — THE SIGHT OF HUMAN BEINGS
5CHAPTER VII — SCIENTIFIC THEORIES AND SCEPTICISM
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6CHAPTER X — THE SACRED HUNT
7CHAPTER XIV — I LEARN MY DOOM
8CHAPTER XVII — BELIEF AND UNBELIEF
9CHAPTER XX — THE DARK MAIDEN LAYELAH
10CHAPTER XXIII — THE ISLAND OF FIRE
11CHAPTER XXVI — GRIMM'S LAW AGAIN
12CHAPTER XXX — THE DAY OF SACRIFICE
13At the Mountains of Madness
14CHAPTER I
15CHAPTER II
16CHAPTER III
17CHAPTER IV
18CHAPTER V
19CHAPTER VI
20CHAPTER VII
21CHAPTER VIII
22CHAPTER IX
23CHAPTER X
24CHAPTER XI
25CHAPTER CHAPTER XII
26The Moon Pool (pt. 1)
27The Moon Pool (pt. 2)
28The Moon Pool (pt. 3)
29The Moon Pool (pt. 4)
30The Moon Pool (pt. 5)
31The Land That Time Forgot
32Chapter 1
33Chapter 4
34Chapter 7
35King Solomon's Mines
36INTRODUCTION
37CHAPTER IV
38CHAPTER VII
39CHAPTER X
40CHAPTER XIII
41CHAPTER XVI
42CHAPTER XIX
43She
44INTRODUCTION
45I MY VISITOR
46II THE YEARS ROLL BY
47III THE SHERD OF AMENARTAS
48IV THE SQUALL
49V THE HEAD OF THE ETHIOPIAN
50VI AN EARLY CHRISTIAN CEREMONY
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