The Lost World
Read The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle in French and English, a parallel text graded reader with audio. Available in CEFR levels A2, B1, B2, and C2.
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It begins with a proposal that goes wrong. Malone, a young reporter for the Daily Gazette, kneels before the proud and lovely Gladys, only to be told she could never love an ordinary man. "There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done," she says, and with that one sentence she sends him off to find one. What he finds is Professor Challenger — a zoologist with an Assyrian-bull beard, huge hairy hands, and a temper that lands the two of them tangled in a chair and rolling down the front steps into the gutter.
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M. Hungerton était le père de Gladys, et c’était vraiment la personne la moins délicate du monde.
Mr. Hungerton was Gladys’s father, and he was truly the most tactless person on earth.
Il ressemblait à un cacatoès ébouriffé et tout en plumes.
He looked like a messy, feathery cockatoo.
Il était très gentil, mais il ne pensait qu’à lui.
He was very good-natured, but he only thought about himself.
Une seule chose aurait pu m’éloigner de Gladys.
One thing could have kept me away from Gladys.
C’était l’idée de l’avoir comme beau-père.
It was the thought of him as my father-in-law.
Je suis sûr d’une chose.
I am sure of one thing.
Il croyait que je venais aux Chestnuts trois jours par semaine pour le plaisir de sa compagnie.
He believed I visited the Chestnuts three days a week to enjoy his company.
History
- Written by Arthur Conan Doyle in English
- Adapted by Line by Line Publishing in 2026