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Bio: Edgar Rice Burroughs, the writer who created Tarzan and fantastic tales of science fiction, was born February 23, 1875 in Chicago, Illinois to Major George Tyler Burroughs and Mary Evaline (Zieger). Burroughs unsuccessfully pursued a series of careers until he was 35 years old: soldier, cowboy, salesman, and other singular interests. It wasn't until his Oak Park years, between 1914 and 1919, that Burroughs became a successful author. While living in Chicago and Oak Park, Burroughs created many of his most memorable characters. The first Tarzan book, Tarzan the Ape Man, was completed in May 1912. Burroughs was also known for writings including the "John Carter of Mars" books, magazine stories, and many other published works. Burroughs captivated many children and adults alike with his imaginative tales. Today his legacy lives on in print, film, video and online.
Burroughs' ERB, Inc. created one of the world's first multimedia merchandising empires--complete with Tarzan merchandizing tied in to the movie versions of his tales. It is fascinating to speculate on the influences and melieu that Burroughs may have created for the young Ernest Hemingway, who was a teenager living in Oak Park at that time, just a few blocks from the Burroughs' residence. Burroughs' popularity has continued to rise from the publication of the first Tarzan novel until today. Burroughs died of a heart ailment on March 19, 1950.
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You've seen the movies, now read the books! Last time Tarzan left Jane engaged to Lord Greystoke, vowing it was in her best interest. But can he stay away? What if Jane is shipwrecked and her life is in danger. Tarzan remains one of the best-loved characters of all time. Find out what the ape-man was really like.
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Tarzan once again returns to Opar, the source of the gold for lost colony of fabled Atlantis. Ever since Atlantis sank beneath the waves, the workers of Opar have continued to mine all that gold, which means there is a rather impressive stockpile. Tarzan follows a greedy Belgian and Arab into the jungle, where the evil pair manage to stumble upon the lost city, at which point our hero loses his memory after a fight. This is good news for La, the beautiful high priestess who serves the Flaming Go... more info>>
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You've seen the movies, now read the book! Tarzan remains one of the best-loved characters of all time. Find out what the ape-man was really like.
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All three Caspak novels in one eBook! Complete and unabridged--The Land that Time Forgot, The People that Time Forgot, and Out of Time's Abyss--in one eBook for one low price. A German submarine lost on a secret mission, a daring aviator crashed on an uncharted island, his friend, desperate to find and rescue him--they all come together on Caspak, the continent where time stands still and dinosaurs and cave men continue to rule supreme. Battling saber-toothed tigers, giant reptiles, pterodactyls... more info>>
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A Princess of Mars, Gods of Mars, Warlord of Mars in one eBook! Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic trilogy of Martian adventure. All three novels, complete and unabridged for one low price! When John Carter is unexpectedly transported to the red planet, Mars, he finds himself prisoner of the cruel Green Men of Thark. Carter soon earns their respect for his bravery and skill with the sword, and wins a friend in Tars Tarkas of the Tharks. As he struggles to gain his freedom--and the love of Dejah Thori... more info>>
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Four Classic Burroughs' Novels at One Low Price. Here is a quartet of novels by the legendary master of adventure fantasy, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Generations have thrilled to "Beyond Thirty," the tale of a future U.S. returning to life after a devastating calamity, "The Man-Eater," the story of a strange relationship between man and beast, "The Jungle Girl," a thrill a minute fantasy in the Tarzan tradition, and "The Monster Men," long considered one of Burroughs' best. Over 350,000 words of read... more info>>
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Three full length Tarzan books in one! The first three Tarzan novels in one eBook--for one low price--complete and unabridged. The trio of romantic adventures that made the ape man one of the most believable and fascinating characters in literary history: Tarzan of the Apes; The Return of Tarzan; and Jungle Tales of Tarzan. In Tarzan of the Apes, young Lord Greystoke is reared by anthropoids when his parents perish after being marooned in the African jungle. Tarzan grows to manhood learning the ... more info>>
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It must have been a little after three o’clock in the afternoon that it happened--the afternoon of June 3rd, 1916. It seems incredible that all that I have passed through--all those weird and terrifying experiences--should have been encompassed within so short a span as three brief months. Rather might I have experienced a cosmic cycle, with all its changes and evolutions for that which I have seen with my own eyes in this brief interval of time--things that no other mortal eye had seen bef... more info>>
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You saw the movie, now read the science fiction novel, about an island continent where dinosaurs are not yet extinct. This story was first published in Blue book Magazine as a three-part serial in the issues for September, October, and November, 1918. The complete trilogy was later combined for publication in book form in June, 1924
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Edgar Rice Burroughs provides one of his most interesting combinations of adventure and social commentary. The premise behind this alternative history story is that the United States did not get involved in the "Great War" in Europe but instead followed its isolationist tendencies to such an extreme ("The East for the East...The West for the West") that no one from the United States has gone past 30 degrees or 175 degrees latitude for over 160 years, which means no one in America even knows who ... more info>>
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Classic REB Trilogy in One E Book! The Mucker is widely regarded as Edgar Rice Burroughs' best novel. It's hero, his finest creation. The action moves right along, from a gritty indictment of the post-World War I Chicago slums, to South Seas pirates, shipwreck, a lost race, and Pancho Villa. The Mucker is the story of Billy Byrne, forced into crime unwillingly by the harsh political and economic conditions of early-1920s, a man who who redeems himself when faced with tests of loyalty and love in... more info>>
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"At The Earth's Core" and "Pellucidar" in one eBook! Both books complete and unabridged. In the first book, when David Innes accompanies his friend, the eccentric scientist Abner Perry in his newest invention, a rocketship shaped "mole" designed to penetrate the Earth's crust, he never dreams broken controls will send the two of them all the way to a strange word at the Earth's core. There human beings are still at a primitive state of development, and are enslaved by, and used for food by the M... more info>>
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The Complete Adventures of Burroughs' Custer Family! For the first time ever, the four parts of Edgar Rice Burroughs great saga of brother and sister, Barney and Victoria Custer, and their strange romantic fates are published in one volume! Meet Barney Custer, visiting the Balkan kingdom of Lutha for a quite vacation. But then he finds himself falling in love with Lutha's princess, threatened by the monarch known as "the Mad King," and imperiled by the schemes of power-crazed plotters. Then the ... more info>>
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John Carter's daughter and son--two full length books in one! Thuvia, Maid of Mars and The Chessmen of Mars--complete and unabridged. Though, Thuvia, the woman he loves has pledged herself to another, Carthoris, son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris, mounts his sky sled and is off to the rescue when she is kidnapped by a jealous rival. When he finds her, in Barsoom's unknown wilds, he is forced to fight phantom bowmen, green men, white apes, and a decadent king to save Thuvia from a fate worse tha... more info>>
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Three More Full Length Tarzan Books In One! Read three Tarzan novels in one eBook--for one low price. The Beasts of Tarzan and The Son of Tarzan tell the thrill-packed story of the kidnapping of the jungle lord's infant son by a treacherous enemy. Tarzan's best efforts to track the culprit prove fruitless, and, in what the enemy feels is the perfect revenge, the boy is abandoned in the jungle, to die among the animals. But one of Tarzan's ape friends senses the foundling is the jungle lord's son... more info>>
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"Master Mind" and "Fighting Man"--Two Complete Burroughs Mars Books In One! Here are two full-length, unabridged quintessential Barsoom novels in one eBook--for one low price! When soldier and soldier of fortune Ulysses S. Paxton wishes on a star--it is Mars, emblem of the God of War. Soon events take him there, to an almost unknown part of Barsoom, captured by the planet's greatest and maddest scientist, he is forced to assist in grisly brain transplants, until the brain of the beautiful slave ... more info>>
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A Trio of Full Length Tarzan Books in One! Here are three of the best Tarzan novels in one eBook--for one low price. In Tarzan the Untamed, the ape man goes on a trail of vengeance when German soldiers burn his African ranch and he finds Jane's charred body among the ruins. In Tarzan the Terrible, the discovery that Jane still lives, her apparent death a trick by enemy soldiers, sends the jungle lord into the almost impenetrable fastnesses of the lost land of Pal-ul-don. There he finds two kingd... more info>>
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