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Tales of Lost Worlds: An Anthology

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According to Wikipedia: “The Lost World literary genre is a fantasy or science fiction genre that involves the discovery of a new world out of time, place, or both. It began as a subgenre of the late-Victorian imperial romance and remains popular to this day. The genre arose during an era when lost civilizations around the world were being discovered, such as Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the city of Troy, or the empire of Assyria.”

This eBook contains the following 12 exemplary Lost World novels:

By Edgar Rice Burroughs:
+The Land that Time Forgot (1918)
+The People That Time Forgot (1918)
+Out of Time's Abyss (1918)

By Arthur Conan Doyle:
+The Lost World (1912): The story of an expedition to a plateau in Venezeula where dinosaurs and other extinct monsters still exist. This novel introduced Doyle's second-most famous character: Professor Challenger.

By H. Rider Haggard:
+King Solomon's Mines (1885): Allan Quatermain's quest to find a missing man in an unexplored part of Africa. This is widely considered to be the first Lost World novel.
+She (1886): Introduces Ayesha – she-who-must-be-obeyed – an immortal and evil witch queen.
+Ayesha (1905)
+She and Allan (1921)

By Rudyard Kipling:
+The Man Who Would Be King (1888)

By Abraham Merritt:
+The Moon Pool (1919): Some say that The Moon Pool formed a basis for H. P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu."

By James De Mille:
+A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888)

By Jules Verne:
+A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)

HOW TO USE THE EBOOK:
You can access the text with the following commands:
+When reading a chapter, swipe to the left to go to the next page.
+Swipe to the right to go to the previous page.
+Double-tap the screen to move to the beginning of a chapter.
+Click on the 'B' button at the top-right of each page of text to store a bookmark at the current page. You can delete outdated bookmarks by editing the Bookmarks list. The eBook also automatically stores a bookmark at the most recently viewed page. This last-page-viewed bookmark always appears at the top of the Bookmarks list and cannot be deleted.

The eBook application allows you to change the text's font type, color and size as well as the color of the background. These settings will be saved when the application is closed and automatically applied when the eBook is opened again.

These instructions are repeated in the eBook application.

Please note that when you first open a chapter, the application takes two or three seconds to perform certain initialization operations before the text appears. The same is true when you change font and/or color settings. You should see an activity indicator going round and round while the application performs this initialization.

Languages: English

Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.2 Software Update
iPhone OS 3.0 Tested