ijX0t [Library ebook] The Poison Belt Online [ijX0t.ebook] The Poison Belt Pdf Free Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook | *ebooks | Download PDF | ePub | DOC Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #12926139 in Books Doyle Arthur Conan 2015-05-26Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x .24 x 5.50l, .29 #File Name: 1512377317104 pagesThe Poison Belt | File size: 58.Mb Arthur Conan Doyle : The Poison Belt before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised The Poison Belt: 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I give it a mehBy Russell MayThis short story features Sir Doyle's Professor Challenger.Sir Doyle's mastery of the English language is in full force. The ripostes between Challenger and Summerlee are almost worth the price of reading the book.Alas, unlike the The Lost World, I have to say this book is barely worth the read. The biggest problem is Sir Doyle sets up the story very well and then doesn't seem to know what to do with it.It's a setup for what could be a great post-apocalyptic world of almost unthinkable horrors. But Sir Doyle flinches.The ending is weak. Oh, it's clear Sir Doyle was aiming for a teaching moment about humanity needing to mature and not take everything for granted and so forth, but despite his normal way of handling plot and pacing, he hamfists the whole thing to something rather drab.There's no adventure. It's passive. They hide out in a sealed room to keep the oxygen in. They go outside and record a horrifying end to humanity. And then Sir Doyle does an almost bait- and-switch with the ending so we all may learn An Important Lesson About Life.Read it if you are trying to read everything by Sir Doyle. His use of English shouldn't be missed, but you can find his writing in much better books by him.It's just better than a two, but hardly worth a three. Rounding up, I give it a meh.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. 'Timely' sequel to The Lost WorldBy Força Porto!'The Poison Belt' is a novelette that needs to be read in the context of its time; read so, it is a fascinating and well-written narrative, one which includes the return of characters from Conan Doyle's earlier novel, 'The Lost World'. The first looked to the past-- this second looked hopefully towards the future.In 'The Lost World', a group of men accompany Professor Challenger to a plateau in what the English still saw in the early 20th Century as the 'mysterious dark jungle' of South America-- the -- to prove, or disprove, the claims he had made before a scientific society in London. He was accompanied by another scientist, the skeptic assigned to prove him wrong, by an upper-class professional explorer/guide, and by a journalist as a 'disinterested witness'. That book has continued to reach new audiences: it has been reprinted dozens of times, was made into a film in 1925 (and four or five more times, including a made-for-television film as late as late as 2001, and was made into multiple radio plays (in all of these cases, in order to better attract audiences, female characters well). [SPOILER ALERT:] Michael Crichton acknowledged his original source material for the best selling book and film "Jurassic Park" by naming its sequel "The Lost World", as did Hollywood, naming the sequel film "The Lost World: Jurassic Park". [End Spoiler.]But if 'The Lost World' looked simultaneously to the far past and to then still-unknown reaches of the globe, 'The Poison Belt' looked, both fearfully and hopefully, to the future. Published just a year after 'The Lost World', it was written at a time that Britain was clearly on the brink of war, and of a war which, for the first time (with the inventions of the aeroplane and the dirigible), could easily spread beyond the European continent to England itself. In addition, naval power had increased significantly with the first Dreadnought Class vessel launched by Britain, sure to be copied by other nations. [SPOILER ALERT:]In 'The Poison Belt', Professor Challenger gathers the same group who'd accompanied him on his earlier expedition to observe, while breathing from oxygen tanks in a sealed room, the world-wide cataclysm as our solar system passes through a belt of poisonous gas, effectively appearing to kill everyone on earth. As a metaphor for the upcoming World War, it was a powerful anti-war message, yet one the author knew doomed to fail: the upcoming war, like the poisonous belt of interstellar gases, was unavoidable. And yet the story ends on a strongly hopeful note-- the solar system, including our planet, passes through the belt, and life returns, albeit with casualties. Conan Doyle seems to be telling his readers that the upcoming war, as terrible as it would be, would eventually end, and that life could return to a semblance of normalcy. He could not have anticipated the horrors of the second "poison belt" to follow just a few decades later, with the second World War.This short book is thus doubly worth reading-- for the story itself (particularly if you've read 'The Lost World', as it's a chance to revisit the characters), and for the underlying message of hope in the face of incipient disaster. I first read this book 40 years ago, in paperback-- thanks to Kindle, I was able to revisit my own past at no cost, as I have long since lost my old copy!3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. The Poison BeltBy JerseygirlProfessor Challenger and his adventurous friends are together again, this time confined to a room in Challenger's home while trying to escape the poisonous cloud the earth has encountered. As every living entity on earth is killed the friends must deal with the fact that they are likely to be the only survivors, due to the fact that the professor seems to have been the only person to have detected the cloud and prepared for it.There is little action here. Being confined as they are the group can only surmise what is happening outside their field of vision.The story revolves around their reactions to what they know is happening and what their futures will hold.Although there's not much action or excitement here, it's an interesting concept. Doyle is, as always, a more than competent author. Altogether I would say it's worth the short amount of time it takes to read this novel. Challenger sends telegrams asking his three companions from The Lost World — Edward Malone, Lord John Roxton, and Professor Summerlee – to join him at his home outside of London. The cryptic telegrams also instruct each of them to 'bring oxygen'. On arrival they are ushered into a sealed room, along with Challenger and his wife. In the course of his researches into various phenomena, Challenger has predicted that the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether which, based on its effect on the people of Sumatra earlier in the day, will cause the end of humanity. Challenger seals them in the room with cylinders of oxygen, which he (correctly) believes will counter the effect of the ether. The sealing is not to keep the ether out – it permeates everything – but "to keep the oxygen in". Professor Challenger, his wife, journalist Malone and adventurer Roxton have gathered with oxygen canisters to watch the final hours of the world. As a poisonous miasma apparently asphyxiates the human race, Malone feverishly writes his copy. More than just SF, this is Conan Doyle's post-First World War message of hope. Read with gusto. - Rachel Redford, The Observer In Doyle's short novel featuring Professor Challenger, the earth moves through a poisonous belt of the 'ether' - the stuff supposedly filling space - and the protagonists of the first Challenger novel, The Lost World, reunite to observe what seems to be the end of all life. ...Glen McCready ... supplies appropriate voices for the major characters, including the rumbling, bull-like Professor Challenger, his dainty wife, and the drawling Lord Roxton. Overall, McCready delivers the somewhat talky text with careful expressiveness, helping to bring it to life. - W.M. A(c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, MaineAbout the AuthorArthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. Sent off to boarding school, he cut his teeth as a story-teller amusing his schoolmates with tales and writing letters home to his mother.He practiced medicine and, in 1900, volunteered as a medic in Africa during the Boer War - he was later knighted for his service. Doyle lost a son, two brothers in law, and two nephews to the Great War. He is remembered for the Sherlock Holmes stories and his novel The Lost World.From AudioFileIn Doyle's short novel featuring Professor Challenger, the earth moves through a poisonous belt of the "ether"--the stuff supposedly filling space--and the protagonists of the first Challenger novel, THE LOST WORLD, reunite to observe what seems to be the end of all life. The book, though a classic of science fiction, is painfully dated in its science and in its casual racism, which only surfaces occasionally but is off-putting. But Glen McCready's genial reading helps. He supplies appropriate voices for the major characters, including the rumbling, bull-like Professor Challenger, his dainty wife, and the drawling Lord Roxton.