Edgar
Rice Burroughs
1875 - 1950
Beyond a
doubt, Edgar Rice Burroughs was a literary phenomenon, he still remains
so to this day, with his books in popular demand around the world and
films being produced by major companies, such as the recent release of
the animated film "Tarzan" by Disney. There has been no one like him in
American fantasy literature, nor anyone like him since. He remains a
major influence on those science fiction fantasy authors who followed,
such as Ray Bradbury.
During his
lifetime, his work, amazing as it seems now, failed to gather critical
acclaim, yet influenced a generation. By the mid-1960s' his work sold
well over 50 million copies, and had written about 60 books. His first
book appeared in 1914 and his first story was published in magazine
form in 1912. His work is still being published today and a whole new
generation of young people are "rediscovering" him, mainly through
efforts of media promotion and films such as "Tarzan" by Disney. Even
with the advent of the Internet, young people still desire his books
which are written on paper and the collectability of the rare first
editions and early printings of his books have never been in higher
demand, commanding very high prices for very good or better dust
jacketed copies.
His books such
as "Tarzan of The Apes" and "A Princess of Mars" still hold up
well despite being written over 80 years ago. Only a few things are
dated in his Martian series books (such as copying machines taking
several minutes to copy paper)-but even more amazing is his use of
descriptive predictions of such things as Mars space ships having
"cloaking devices," and the use of rays resembling holograms and
lasars. Some of his character names used in the Martian tales take on a
very strong resemblance to Star Wars character
names as well as some of the physical creature resemblances from
that film.
Edgar Rice
Burroughs got a start in writing after some failed attempts at being a
salesman, railroad policeman and other professions. He would spend time
daydreaming and reading pulp magazines/ Deciding that he could
write a better pulp story, he transcribed his first story onto paper at
the age of 35 in 1911. At the time he thought the story so
far-out and fantastic that he signed it under the pseudonym "Normal
Bean" and submitted it to The All-Story Magazine , which
accepted it and published it under the name of Norman Bean. This story
was published in the February through July issues of 1912 with the
title of Under The Moons of Mars, which in 1917 was
published in book form as A Princess of Mars.
Burroughs
always stated that he wrote merely and expressly to entertain and
provide an escape to the problems of daily life. At this he is
still the supreme master.
Series
Barsoom
Caspak
The Land
that Time Forgot
Scatterings
of humans are caught up between menacing winged humanoids
to the north, and dinosaurs to the south, although they all share a
mysterious connection.
The People that
Time Forgot
When
Tom Billings set out to rescue Bowen Tyler from teh lost continent
of Capron, he equiped himesf with all the weaponry the modern world
afforded. But what chance did Billings have- a modern man with modern
machines in the land inhabited by th people that time forgot.
Out of Time's
Abyss
On
Caprona, the Land That Time Forgot, all of the world's savage past
still lived. This is the story of the man who tried to find the secret
of Caprona. When Bradley, the adventurer, dared to cross the last
terrible barrier to the heart of Caprona, he entered a world of wonder,
terror and danger beyond the imagination of any man.
Jungle Adventures
The Cave Girl
Clyde Caldwell
|
The Eternal Lover/The Eternal Savage
Roy Krenkel
Ace
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Jungle Girl/The Land of the Hidden Men
Frank Frazetta
Ace
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The Lad and the Lion
Manuel Sanjulian
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The Cave Girl
The
story of Waldo Smith-Jones and his desperate effort to survive on a
lost island of primitive men and primitive beasts. How Waldo was given
the name of Thandar, how he won the hand of the cave princess Nadara,
and how he overcame the most desperate of odds make this a real
Tarzan-type epic.
The Eternal
Lover/The Eternal Savage
While visiting Tarzan in his
African jungle home, an American girl falls into the most astonishing
science-fiction adventure of all. By a quirk in Time, a white-skinned
savage from the Stone Age is thrust forward to modern days long enough
to meet her and bring her back to his own world of cave people and
prehistorical wilderness.
Jungle Girl/The
Land of the Hidden Men
Asia,
vast continent of ancient civilizations and mysterious peoples,
has many corners little known to the rest of the world. One such was
the jungle-hidden heart of exotic Cambodia, where Gordon King, a daring
American explorer, stumbled upon the thousand-year secret kingdom of
THE LAND OF HIDDEN MEN.
The Lad and the
Lion
Here
is the story of a youth--actually a deposed king--whose life is
preserved by a miracle and who grows up on a derelict ship in
companionship with a young lion.
Moon
The Moon
Maid
The Moon Maid
The Red Hawk
The Moon Men
The Moon Men
The Red Hawk
The Moon Men
Mucker
The Mucker
Byrne
was a vicious animal - ruthless, powerful, and bllodthirsty -
spawned by the slum jungles of Chicago. Be fore long, his natural
ability for finding trouble left him shipwrecked in a Far East jungle
where he was free to unleash the savage nature that was his only chance
for survival.
Return of the
Mucker
Billy
Byrne squared his broad shoulders and filled his deep lungs with
the familiar medium which is known as air in Chicago. He was standing
upon the platform of a New York Central train that was pulling into the
La Salle Street Station, and though the young man was far from happy
something in the nature of content pervaded his being, for he was
coming home. After something more than a year of world wandering and
strange adventure Billy Byrne was coming back to the great West Side
and Grand Avenue. Now there is not much upon either side or down the
center of long and tortuous Grand Avenue to arouse enthusiasm, nor was
Billy particularly enthusiastic about that more or less squalid
thoroughfare. The thing that exalted Billy was the idea that he was
coming back to _show them_. He had left under a cloud and with a
reputation for genuine toughness and rowdyism that has seen few
parallels even in the ungentle district of his birth and upbringing. A
girl had changed him. She was as far removed from Billy's sphere as the
stars themselves; but Billy had loved her and learned from her, and in
trying to become more as he knew the men of her class were he had
sloughed off much of the uncouthness that had always been a part of
him, and all of the rowdyism. Billy Byrne was no longer the mucker.
The Oakdale
Affair
The
house on the hill showed lights only upon the first floor - in the
spacious reception hall, the dining room, and those more or less
mysterious purLieus thereof from which emanate disagreeable odors and
agreeable foods. From behind a low bush across the wide lawn a pair of
eyes transferred to an alert brain these simple perceptions from which
the brain deduced with Sherlockian accuracy and Raffleian purpose that
the family of the president of The First National Bank of - Oh, let's
call it Oakdale - was at dinner, that the servants were below stairs
and the second floor deserted. The owner of the eyes had but recently
descended from the quarters of the chauffeur above the garage which he
had entered as a thief in the night and quitted apparelled in a
perfectly good suit of clothes belonging to the gentlemanly chauffeur
and a soft, checked cap which was now pulled well down over a pair of
large brown eyes in which a rather strained expression might have
suggested to an alienist a certain neophytism which even the stern set
of well shaped lips could not effectually belie.
Pellucidar
Tarzan
Venus
Novels
Beyond the Farthest
Star
Part 1: Adventure on
Poloda
Part II: Tangor
Returns
Suddenly
zapped
from an Earth battle with Nazi warplanes, Tangor is forced to create a
new life for himself on the planet Poloda, where he uses his skills as
a soldier to help the brave citizens of Unis fight against the
marauding Kapars.
The Lost
Continent/Beyond Thirty
For
two hundred years, a civilized America had cut off all contact with
the war-ruined Eastern Hemisphere until such places as Europe and Great
Britain had become mere legends. Then Jefferson Turck dared take his
U.S. aero-sub across the 30th Longitude West on the mission of a new
Columbus, and a fascinating voyage of discovery.
The Monster Men
A
scientist is obsessed with creating the perfect human in his
laboratory vats, but the road to perfection is paved with twelve
hideous mistakes!
The Mad King
Life
as a gentleman-farmer in the once-wild West was hardly exciting
enough for an adventurer and master swordsman like Barney Custer. So
when he had the chance to make the long voyage to the land of Lutha, he
took it - and there encountered more adventure in a few months than
most people find in a lifetime. "A crumbling kingdom, a black-hearted
regent and his diabolical cohorts, a beautiful princess trapped in a
dark and dismal dungeon, sinister plots and harrowing escapes - this is
what Barney Custer found.
Pirate Blood
The Rider
Karlova
and Margoth had been enemies for centuries and now they were
about to join in peaceful alliance through the marriage of Princess
Mary and Prince Boris. But the Rider, the most successful highwayman to
plague the two countries secretely becomes part of the wedding . . .
then
everything went wrong.
Historical
I am a
Barbarian
I
Britannicus Son of a great and defiant chief in far-off Britain, to
the haughty Romans I was just another young barbarian. In the decadence
of Imperial Rome I faced death time and again; in the gladitorial
arena, in the chariot races, in the twisted hearts of palaces .. and
always at the hands of my master, mad Caligula, the bloodiest Roman of
them all. Someday I would have my revenge . . .
Outlaw of Torn
The
most feared warrior in England: at 17 - the greatest swordsman in
England; at 18 - a price on his head; at 19 - the leader of a band of a
thousand. Who was this Norman of Torn? Where did he come from? All that
anyone knew was that his blade was sharp, his arm strong. Then - as he
was about to uncover the secret of his birth - he found himself in the
greatest peril he'd ever known.
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