The Lost World
Professor Challenger leads an expedition to a remote South American plateau where dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures still roam. What begins as a scientific quest becomes a fight for survival in a forgotten world.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
During the French Revolution, a mysterious Englishman known as the Scarlet Pimpernel smuggles doomed aristocrats to safety. The elusive hero’s identity becomes the obsession of the French agent Chauvelin.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll, visiting Ruritania, discovers he is the exact double of the soon-to-be-crowned king. When the king is abducted, Rudolf must impersonate him to save the throne.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Phlegmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers half his fortune that he can circle the globe in eighty days. With his valet Passepartout, he races trains, ships, and elephants — pursued by a detective convinced he is a thief.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and harpooner Ned Land are taken aboard the submarine Nautilus by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. Their journey beneath the world’s oceans becomes a voyage of wonders and deepening peril.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Wrongfully imprisoned Edmond Dantes escapes after fourteen years with a hidden treasure and reinvents himself as the Count of Monte Cristo. His meticulous campaign of revenge and eventual reckoning is one of literature’s great sagas.
