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The Lost World is a 1912 science fiction novel by Arthur Conan Doyle. This is the first book in a series of works about Professor Challenger. The novel describes the adventures of a British expedition to South America. On a rocky inaccessible plateau in the Amazon basin, Challenger and his companions (Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton and reporter Malone, on whose behalf the story is being told) discover the "lost world" - an area where dinosaurs, apes and savages of the Stone Age have survived. The Lost World was a huge reader success, considered one of the masterpieces of science fiction, and has been translated into every major language in the world. Among its merits, critics note a dynamic plot, vivid characters, mild humor.