Arthur Conan Doyle 1 hr 53 min read

As Earth passes through a belt of poisonous ether, the whole human race falls into a deathlike swoon, and Professor Challenger and his friends, sealed away, believe themselves the last men alive.

This Finnish edition presents Arthur Conan Doyle's 1913 'The Poison Belt,' a gripping tale of near-apocalypse starring Professor Challenger. Vivid, thoughtful, foundational. Read it for a classic Doyle scientific romance of the world's apparent end, in Finnish.

In its time

Published in 1913, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 53 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).