A Cidade Submarina (Obras de Conan Doyle - Contos e Novelas Fantásticas #IX) -

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Melhoramentos

1958

155 páginas

5h 10m

ISBN-1: 0

Português Brasileiro

["The Maracot Deep" [a.k.a.] The Lost World Under the Sea (1929) / Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 1859-1930] '-' This was one of the works of fiction published during Doyle's life. The story features Professor Maracot who leads an expedition to the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, discovering a lost race of Atlanteans.

[Wikipedia] The Maracot Deep is a short 1929 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle about the discovery of a sunken city of Atlantis by a team of explorers led by Professor Maracot. He is accompanied by Cyrus Headley, a young research zoologist and Bill Scanlan, an expert mechanic working with an iron works in Philadelphia who is in charge of the construction of the submersible (a bathysphere) which the team takes to the bottom of the Atlantic. The novel is narrated by Headley who first writes a letter to his friend Sir John Talbot. On his subsequent rescue, he completes his story giving details on his escape and how they fought off possibly the greatest danger to humanity, the Devil himself!

The novel first appeared in 1928 as a serial in The Saturday Evening Post. It also appeared as a serial in The Strand Magazine from October 1927 to February 1928. In 1929 it was followed by a sequel, The Lord of the Dark Face, beginning with the April issue of The Strand. The same year the novel was published in The Maracot Deep and Other Stories from John Murray in London, and was released in the U.S. by Doubleday Books of New York...