Edgar Rice Burroughs

Two schoolboys, Dick and Doc, are cousins who resemble each other because their mothers are twins. As Dick is also related to Tarzan through his father, they become known as the Tarzan Twins. Invited to visit Tarzan's African estate, they become lost in the jungle and are imprisoned by cannibals, from whom they escape. They are then reunited with their host, who introduces them to his pet lion, Jad-bal-ja. Subsequently, they become involved in an...

Collected here in this oversized omnibus edition are ten novels of adventure by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs was the undisputed master of pulp fiction. His characters Tarzan and John Carter are still household names today. Now readers can thrill to his other fine novels, which include 'At the Earth's Core', 'Pellucidar', 'The Outlaw of Torn', 'The Efficiency Expert', 'The Monster Men', 'The Oakdale Affair', 'The Land That Time Forgot', 'Out of...

Return to the jungle in books five through eight of Edgar Rice Burroughs's best-known series. In Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Tarzan loses his memory and is stuck in the jungle while Jane is waiting for him to help her out of trouble. Jungle Tales of Tarzan is a collection of twelve short stories about Tarzan. Set in World War I, Tarzan the Untamed features a Tarzan who is out for revenge after he believes Jane has been killed by German troops....

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is best known for his Tarzan and John Carter of Mars books, but he also wrote four thrilling western novels. We are delighted to include them all in this volume. As always with novels from this time period, not everything is "politically correct" by modern standards. Please keep the age of the work in perspective as you read. Included are: THE BANDIT OF HELL'S BEND THE WAR CHIEF APACHE DEVIL THE DEPUTY SHERIFF...

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 one-time resident of Chicago's notorious Red light district, Maggie Lynch sets out determinedly to end her life of sin and find a decent job. But on entering the respectable world, Maggie finds that deceit and greed are as rampant in corporate offices as on the streets she so desperately wants to escape.

The John Carter of Mars Collection includes seven of Edgar Rice Burroughs works: A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, Warlord of Mars, Thuvia, Maid of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, The Master Mind of Mars, and A Fighting Man of Mars.

The novel, which was written two years before the outbreak of World War II, satirizes Nazi Germany by including a fascist political faction called the "Zani". There is also a character named "Muso" as a reference to Benito Mussolini. Unlike the first two Venus novels, Carson of Venus focuses on spy intrigue and war instead of wilderness adventuring. It also indicates a change of political orientation from that of the earlier books, where the villains...

An Anti-Communist Science Fiction Classic by the creator of Tarzan. This is the last of a 3 part Dystopian trilogy of life in a socialist 'utopia'. Book 1 - The Moon Maid, 2 is The Moon Men. Admiral Julian III knows his future: He will be reborn as his grandson in the 21st century & travel through space to make a startling discovery inside the moon. In the 22nd century, he will live again as Julian IX, refusing to submit to the victorious Moon Men....

John Carter of Mars is a fictional Virginian transported to Mars and the initial protagonist of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom stories. His character is enduring, having appeared in various media since his 1912 debut in a magazine serial.