Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Tarzan volume 1
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This classic story encompasses the life of John Clayton, the son of English aristocrats, who was abandoned in the jungle as an infant after the untimely death of his parents. He is adopted by the caring ape Kala and is raised in her tribe of gorillas lead by the intimidating Kerchak. Growing up an outsider among his peers, Tarzan gradually earns the respect of his ape tribe through physical feats and his hunting abilities. This sparks jealously in...
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Tarzan volume 2
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In this second addition to Edgar Rice Burroughs' epic adventures of Tarzan, listeners will find the jungle man leaving America to visit old friends in Europe. Through spirals of action, disaster, and shipwreck, we find Tarzan and a group of travelers, including his first love Jane and his new archenemy Rokoff, back in the jungle where he was raised. Encountering even more hardship in the harsh jungle, Tarzan again fights wild animals and savage tribes...
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Barsoom series volume 6
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In this novel, Burroughs shifts the focus of the series for the second time, the first having been from early protagonists John Carter and Dejah Thoris to their children after the third book. Now he moves to a completely unrelated hero, Ulysses Paxton, an Earthman like Carter who like him is sent to Mars by astral projection.
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Tarzan volume 20
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A young man named Brian Gregory has disappeared in Africa, looking for the fabled Father of Diamonds; his father and sister want to go rescue him, and they can only enlist Tarzan's help because they know Captain Paul D`Arnot. By chance, Tarzan and Brian are lookalike, thus making some vile scoundrels to think Tarzan is Brian. They are also heading out after the big old diamond. The Forbidden city is again in a secret valley, with two cities Ashair...
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Beyond the Farthest Star is a science fiction novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. The novel consists of two novellas, "Adventure on Poloda" and "Tangor Returns", written quickly in late 1940. The first was published in The Blue Book Magazine in 1942, but the second did not see publication until 1964 when it was featured in Tales of Three Planets along with "The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw" and The Wizard of Venus.
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In the first three adventures of the original Tarzan series, the aristocratic ape-man discovers his identity, finds love, and battles his enemies.
Tarzan of the Apes: Born to English aristocrats marooned in a West African jungle, John Clayton is soon orphaned-and then adopted by a she-ape. Given the name Tarzan, he grows up among the apes with no memory of civilization. But when a party of white explorers arrives, Tarzan is drawn to them-especially...
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Featuring reincarnation, alien invasion, and an epic battle for freedom, this is the complete anti-communist science fiction collection, The Moon Trilogy, by the prolific author of The Tarzan Series, Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Julian knows his future. He is aware he will be reborn to lead Earth on a pioneering expedition through space that will result in centuries of suffering, and he knows that in 100s of years to come, he will drive humanity into...
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The book begins with the introduction of your standard hero; Buck Mason, a straight talking straight shooting cowboy who has a problem with Ole Gunderstrom surrounding a land dispute that has been going on for 18 years. His visit is most likely not entirely about this dispute but more to garner information about Gunderstrom's daughter Olga who he sent out East for a proper education. Buck and Olga had been friends since childhood but Ole Gunderstrom...
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Learn how to survive in the jungle in the first four novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs's best-known series. In Tarzan of the Apes, join Tarzan, a young boy raised by apes, as he saves the beautiful Jane Porter and learns how to be human. In The Return of Tarzan, Tarzan becomes chief of a native tribe, wins Jane Porter's hand, and sets sail for civilization. In The Beasts of Tarzan, Tarzan fights to free his son Jack and wife Jane after they are kidnapped....
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Together for the first time in one omnibus binding are all ten of the original Tarzan Novels that cemented Tarzan's name in the annals of heroic fiction. That's more than one thousand pages of pulse pounding adventure. Almost a million words! Plus superb color illustrations from some of the original titles.
Return to a simpler more exciting time with Tarzan and his adventures.
Included in this edition:
• Tarzan of the Apes
• The Return Of Tarzan
•...
51) Escape on Venus
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In the final novel of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Venus series, stalwart Earthman Carson Napier and his mate, the beautiful Duare, are trying to find their way back to Korva, the country that became their home in the previous book. We follow them from mishap to mishap as they encounter a nation of fish-men, the cult of a strange goddess, a macabre museum whose living exhibits are paralyzed then mounted, and a war between navies of huge land-bound ships...
52) Swords of Mars
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Barsoom series volume 8
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English
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Swords of Mars begins as a cloak and dagger thriller and ends as an interplanetary odyssey. In this novel John Carter, transplanted Earthman, returns to his status of protagonist and first-person narrator for the first time since the third Martian novel, The Warlord of Mars.
53) Land of Terror
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Pellucidar novels volume 6
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English
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The novel relates the adventures of David Innes on his return from Lo-Har to Sari in the wake of the events of Back to the Stone Age.
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Tarzan ("... the Apeman") is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani "great apes", he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan first appeared in the novel Tarzan of the Apes (magazine publication 1912, book publication 1914), and then in twenty-five sequels, three authorized books by other authors,...
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Book Three of the John Carter of Mars collections, this edition contains the original text from the eighth, ninth, tenth, and the two short stories and make up the eleventh of Edgar Rice Burrough's world-famous novels. Originally published between 1934 and 1943, Swords of Mars; Synthetic Men of Mars; Llana of Gathol; John Carter and the Giant of Mars; and Skeleton Men of Jupiter are science fiction classics!
56) The Rider
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The kingdoms of Margoth and Karlova, age-old rivals, negotiate a marriage alliance between royal heirs Princess Mary of Margoth and Crown Prince Boris of Karlova. Each resists the idea of wedding a hereditary enemy. Meanwhile, in America, lovers Gwendolyn Bass and Hemmington Main find their matrimonial hopes thwarted by Gwendolyn's mother, who dreams of her daughter marrying into European nobility. Mrs. Bass takes Gwendolyn to Europe with this project...
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Pellucidar novels volume 1
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Two men who build an experimental excavating vehicle discover it cannot be, turned, and it burrows 500 miles into the Earth's crust, emerging into the unknown interior world of Pellucidar.
58) Apache Devil
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Shoz-Dijiji, or Black Bear, kidnapped by the Apaches from his white pioneer family as an infant and raised by Geronimo, is now a brave and accomplished Apache War Chief. In addition to the skills of hunting and warfare, he has learned to hate violently the pin-dah-lickoyee ("white eyes") from witnessing their consistently wretched treatments of the Apaches.
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A cliff-dwelling warrior of 100,000 years ago, Nu, is magically transported to the present, falls in love with Victoria Custer of Beatrice, Nebraska, the reincarnation of his lost lover Nat-ul, and the two are transported back to the Stone Age. The story is set in Africa, and the present-day sequences include Victoria's brother Barney Custer, protagonist of Burroughs's Ruritanian novel The Mad King, as well as Burroughs's iconic hero Tarzan from his...
60) Llana of Gathol
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Barsoom series volume 10
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The stories in this collection revolve around John Carter's granddaughter Llana of Gathol, who plays the "damsel in distress" role-played by Dejah Thoris and Thuvia in earlier entries of the Barsoom series.