Tarzan: The Novels: Volume 2 (Four Novels) Second Edition
(Second edition (2017), with improved typeface. This omnib...)
Second edition (2017), with improved typeface. This omnibus volume, second in a series, presents the next four novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ enthralling Tarzan of the Apes. In Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, the ape-man engages in a battle of wits and strength with a corrupt Belgian soldier, as they struggle to lay claim to the treasures of a long-lost Atlantean colony in the jungle—a struggle made more difficult by Tarzan having lost his memory! In Tarzan the Untamed, World War I disrupts the peaceful life of Tarzan with his wife Jane on their East African estate. Taking up once more the way of the savage ape-man, Tarzan vows vengeance against the German soldiers that he believes to have murdered his wife. His adventures take him through and across a deadly desert, fighting enemies all the way. In Tarzan the Terrible, Tarzan finds himself in the mysterious country of Paul-ul-don, an evolutionary island in the African jungle interior. Here dinosaur descendants and intelligent tailed ape-men live amidst fabulous lost cities. In Tarzan and the Golden Lion, our hero rebuilds his life in Africa, only to be abducted and held prisoner in the lost city of Opar, whose priestess would have him as her mate. Trekking through the legendary Valley of Diamonds, Tarzan finds himself followed by a mysterious man—who is Tarzan’s own double! From his stirring descriptions of the jungle itself to his adept conjuring of scenes of action and mystery, Burroughs does not fail to deliver the thrilling narratives that have made Tarzan so very famous.
See also our first volume: ISBN 1635489822.
This second edition enlarges the previously-cramped typeface and has redistributed the novels between the two volumes, for a more enjoyable reading experience.
Published by Ex Fontibus Co.
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Having failed in a number of occupations as a young man...)
Having failed in a number of occupations as a young man, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) found his niche as a writer with Tarzan of the Apes, first published in 1914. Highly imaginative, exotic and suspenseful, the story tells of an infant — the son of an aristocratic English couple — abandoned when his parents die in the jungles of Africa. Rescued and reared by apes, he learns to speak their language and imitate their ability to travel swiftly through the treetops.
Eventually, his courage, immense strength and exceptional intelligence earn him the respect and admiration not only of the apes, but of all the creatures of the jungle. The ape-man's story is told here in this classic, fast-paced novel, packed with riveting adventures as Tarzan avenges the killing of Kala, his ape-mother, subdues man-eating beasts of the jungle, meets and falls in love with the beautiful Jane Porter, vanquishes greedy pirate-adventurers, and deals with assorted other threats.
Although Burroughs followed this story with many Tarzan sequels, it is doubtful if any ever equaled this novel for its originality, readability and sheer storytelling power. In this inexpensive edition, complete and unabridged, it will thrill a new generation with the legendary exploits of the "Lord of the Apes."
Mars Trilogy: A Princess of Mars; The Gods of Mars; The Warlord of Mars
(This bind-up of the first three John Carter of Mars books...)
This bind-up of the first three John Carter of Mars books is an ideal 100th anniversary keepsake.
Ever since A Princess of Mars was published in 1912, readers of all ages have read and loved Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom series. Now, 100 years later, this brand-new bind-up contains the first three classic John Carter of Mars books: A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, and The Warlord of Mars. Featuring an Introduction by Bruce Coville and illustrations from three classic fantasy illustrators—Mark Zug, Scott Gustafson, and Scott Fischer—this collection is an incredible value and will be treasured by existing and new fans.
Don’t miss the new John Carer anthology, Under the Moons of Mars!
This book has not been prepared, approved, licensed, or authorized by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. or any other entity associated with the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate.
John Carter: Barsoom Series (7 Novels) a Princess of Mars; Gods of Mars; Warlord of Mars; Thuvia, Maid of Mars; Chessmen of Mars; M
(When John Carter goes to sleep in a mysterious cave in th...)
When John Carter goes to sleep in a mysterious cave in the Arizona dessert, he wakes up on the planet Mars. There he meets the fifteen foot tall, four armed, green men of mars, with horse-like dragons, and watch dogs like oversized frogs with ten legs. His adventures continue as he battles great white apes, fights plant men, defies the Goddess of Death, and braves the frozen wastes of Polar Mars. In other adventures, the Prince of Helium encounters a race of telepathic warriors, the Princess of Helium confronts the headless men of Mars, Captain Ulysses Paxton learns the secret of human immortality, and Tan Hadron's idealized notion of love is tested as he fights off gigantic spiders and cannibals. Edgar Rice Burroughs vision of Mars was loosely inspired by astronomical speculation of the time, especially that of Percival Lowell, who saw the red planet as a formerly Earth-like world now becoming less hospitable to life due to its advanced age. Burroughs predicted the invention of homing devices, radar, sonar, autopilot, collision detection, television, teletype, genetic cloning, living organ transplants, antigravity propulsion, and many other concepts that were well ahead of his time. The books in the Barsoom series were an early inspiration to many, including science fiction authors Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury, they influenced renowned scientist Carl Sagan in his quest for extraterrestrial life, and were instrumental in the making of James Cameron's Avatar, and George Lucas' Star Wars. This edition includes 46 illustrations.
Barsoom Series Collection: 7 John Carter Stories Fully Illustrated - A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, The Warlord of Mars, Thuvia, Maid of Mars, ... Master Mind of Mars and Yellow Men of Mars
("Barsoom Series Collection: 7 John Carter Stories - Fully...)
"Barsoom Series Collection: 7 John Carter Stories - Fully Illustrated" is a collection of 7 novels/stories of John Carter by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It includes all the original picture illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover and J. Allen St. John. The book is properly formatted and includes a main table of contents as well as a separate table of contents for each story. Novels/Stories included:
1. A Princess of Mars
2. The Gods of Mars
3. The Warlord of Mars
4. Thuvia, Maid of Mars
5. The Chessmen of Mars
6. The Master Mind of Mars
7. Yellow Men of Mars
Follow John Carter as he travels through the desolate landscape of Mars. Experience adventures full of feats of daring and dazzling swordplay!
Tarzan: The Novels: Volume 1 (Five Novels) Second Edition
(Second edition (2017), with improved typeface. Welcome to...)
Second edition (2017), with improved typeface. Welcome to the “primeval forest.” This omnibus collection presents the first five novels of the thrilling adventures of Tarzan of the Apes. Son of an English Lord, raised by the savage apes that killed his father, found again by a civilization that he would never quite come to call his own, he was at home in the jungle in which he was reared. Swinging through the treetops, bane of lions, tamer of elephants, terror of cannibals, finder of lost cities, and beloved of the American woman Jane Porter, this knight of the forest, never trained in chivalry, was known to the outside world as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke—but to himself and the denizens of the jungle in which he grew up, he would be forever Tarzan, King of the Apes. Included in this volume: Tarzan of the Apes; The Return of Tarzan; The Son of Tarzan; The Beasts of Tarzan; Jungle Tales of Tarzan. An introduction gives the history of Burroughs’ novels and addresses certain points that later writers have rightfully questioned.
See also our second volume: ISBN 635489830.
This second edition enlarges the previously-cramped typeface and has redistributed the novels between the two volumes, for a more enjoyable reading experience.
Published by Ex Fontibus Co.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American novelist. He became most famous for his Tarzan stories that created a folk hero known around the world.
Background
Edgar Rice Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875 in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest of the four sons of George Tyler Burroughs, a wealthy businessman, and Mary Evaline (Zieger) Burroughs.
The father was descended from early English settlers of Massachusetts; the mother was of Pennsylvania German ancestry. George Burroughs had been a captain in the Union Army, and his son remembered him as retaining a "very stern and military" aspect. Mrs. Burroughs was warm and good-humored.
Education
Educated at various private schools in Chicago, Edgar Burroughs was sent to Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, to prepare for Yale, but was expelled, confirming his father's bitter predictions of failure. The pattern of the next two decades was one of high striving and low attainment. Burroughs continued his schooling at the Michigan Military Academy in Orchard Lake, Michigan, whose novel-writing commandant fulfilled his youthful ideal of the gallant fighting man.
Career
Edgar Burroughs perfected his horsemanship and decided on a military career. When he failed the examination for West Point he was forced to return to Orchard Lake, where he gave instruction in geology and the Gatling gun. In 1896 Burroughs enlisted in the United States cavalry but was soon discharged, ostensibly for a weak heart. The years from 1897 to 1911 saw a long succession of mostly petty jobs and aborted small business ventures in Idaho and Chicago.
When he needed money to marry his childhood sweetheart, he took a job with his father's American Battery Company, but the friction between father and son worsened.
The newlyweds headed west to share in the mining ventures of Burroughs' luckless brothers. Reared in affluence, the couple soon found themselves in less-than-genteel poverty. In 1905 they returned to Chicago, reduced to living in George Burroughs' house while Ed held down a series of low-paying jobs. One of his assignments was the placing of advertisements in pulp magazines. Claiming that a novice could equal the top pulp authors, he was soon writing fiction to relieve his boredom.
In 1911 Burroughs tossed off his first novel and sold it to one of the leading science fiction and adventure magazines, All-Story, which ran it as a serial the following year. "Under the Moons of Mars" by "Norman Bean" (a nom de plume later happily discarded) was highly successful, and Burroughs turned to writing full time. By the time the novel was published in book form as A Princess of Mars (1917), he had nineteen other works in print, most of them serialized in All-Story before book publication.
Burroughs is best known for three long series. The Martian novels, beginning with A Princess of Mars, concern the conquest of Barsoom (Mars) by "John Carter, gentleman, " an ageless swordsman from Virginia. In the Pellucidar series, which began in 1922 with At the Earth's Core, David Innes, a wealthy Yale graduate, becomes emperor of a prehistoric world deep within the globe. His most famous series, Tarzan of the Apes, began with the novel of that title in 1914. There the scion of an ancient English family, whose parents were shipwrecked on the African coast, survives their death to grow up in the bosom of a tribe of prehominid apes.
In the sequel Tarzan makes the transit from jungle to civilization, recovers the title of Lord Greystoke, and wins the hand of the beautiful Jane Porter.
Tarzan and the Lion Man (1934) features a demented Victorian geneticist who calls himself God and produces an English-speaking race of gorillas through infusions of Tudor chromosomes. Burroughs' writing is uneven and often amateurish.
Burroughs occasionally scores when he writes in a satirical vein, particularly in Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924), but he is more often clumsy than not. His shortcomings as a writer are most apparent in Beyond Thirty (All Around magazine, 1916; published in book form, 1957), whose theme is the reversion of England and Western Europe to wilderness. Just when the story promises to be more than a potboiler, it grinds to a halt, as though Burroughs' invention had flagged. Burroughs' sudden success enabled him to move to Hollywood, where he could supervise the filming of the immensely popular Tarzan movies.
In 1919 he bought an estate near Hollywood, in what would later be named Tarzana, California, which he operated at a heavy loss as a "rancho. " Always pressed for money, he averaged three novels a year, producing some sixty-eight titles in all. He was an inveterate plunger, and his bad investments reduced his fortune. His financial interests expanded so rapidly that in 1923 he took the unprecedented step of incorporating himself.
A Tarzan comic strip began in 1929 and was still being published in the 1970's. Tarzan products ranging from gasoline to coloring books proliferated. A radio serial starring his daughter and son-in-law (a former movie Tarzan) enjoyed great popularity.
Tarzan of the films was, of course, the most successful of these by-products, though Burroughs was pained to see his multilingual aristocrat reduced to a lumpish commoner grunting in pidgin English, bereft of both intellect and irony.
The outbreak of World War II prompted Burroughs to write a series of morale-boosting pieces for the Advertiser of Honolulu, where he was then living. Returning to California in late 1944, he fell prey to Parkinson's disease.
He died at the age of seventy-four, in Encino, California, of heart disease and hardening of the arteries. His ashes were placed in the Chapel of the Pines Crematorium in Los Angeles. Burroughs was no Kipling or H. G. Wells, but he was one of the most successful popular novelists America has ever produced. The 1960's saw a revival of interest in his work.
Quotations:
". .. if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines. "
Bradbury continued that "By giving romance and adventure to a whole generation of boys, Burroughs caused them to go out and decide to become special. "
Personality
In his youth Ed was an uncomplicated boy, fond of outdoor sports, but a poor student.
Quotes from others about the person
In a Paris Review interview, Ray Bradbury said of Burroughs that "Edgar Rice Burroughs never would have looked upon himself as a social mover and shaker with social obligations. But as it turns out – and I love to say it because it upsets everyone terribly – Burroughs is probably the most influential writer in the entire history of the world. "
Interests
He learned to shoot and ride on his brothers' Idaho ranch, where he relished the camaraderie of cowboy life.
Connections
Burroughs married Emma Centennia Hulbert, the daughter of a Chicago hotel owner, on January 31, 1900; they had three children: Joan, Hulbert, and John Coleman.
Burroughs' first marriage ended in divorce on December 6, 1934, and on April 4, 1935, he married Florence (Gilbert) Dearholt in Las Vegas, Nevada. They were divorced on May 4, 1942.