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Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a businessman. During the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891, he spent half a year on his brothers' ranch on the Raft River in Idaho. He attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and then the Michigan Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1895. He failed the entrance exam for West Point, and so became an enlisted soldier with the 7th U.S. Cavalry in Fort Grant, Arizona Territory. He was discharged in 1897, having been found ineligible for service due to a heart problem. He drifted, working odd jobs at ranches across Idaho, then came to work at his father's firm in 1899. He married Emma Centennia Hulbert in 1900. In 1904 he left his job and found less regular work, ending up back in Chicago. He held several low-wage jobs for the next seven years, then, while working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler, he began to write fiction in 1911. He began reading pulp fiction magazines and decided to aim his fiction toward getting published in these magazines. His first published story, "Under the Moons of Mars," was serialized in The All-Story magazine in 1912. He began writing full-time and his first published novel, Tarzan of the Apes, was published in October of 1912. In 1919 he purchased a ranch north of Los Angeles, California which he named "Tarzana," a name which was later adopted by the citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch. In 1923 he set up Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and began printing his own books. He divorced Emma in 1934 and married former actress Florence Gilbert Dearholt in 1935. In 1941, when Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked, he was a resident of Hawaii and he volunteered to become the oldest war correspondent for the U.S. during World War II. He divorced his second wife in 1942. After the war he moved back to Encino, California, where, after many health problems, he died of a heart attack in March of 1950. Over the course of his writing career he wrote almost seventy novels.

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Tarzan and the City of Gold

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Tarzan moved forward, stealthily, silently, his eyes on the quarry ahead. But behind him was an even greater danger. A marauding band of shiftas, armed with long barrelled rifles and spears and mounted on half tamed ponies. Suddenly Tarzan sensed their presence and turned to face them. Armed only with a hunting bow and spear and his dreaded knife he crouched ready to fight for his life. The shiftas saw him turn. Spurring their mounts into a gallop the eight horseman charged at breakneck speed towards the Lord of the Jungle intent on riding him down. Tarzan took the first of his four arrows and fitted it to his bow...

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Tarzan's guest

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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The Lockwood concern

John O'Hara

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A thirsty evil

P. M. Hubbard, Gore Vidal

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The stars look down

A. J. Cronin

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Feudists

Ernest Haycox

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A for anything

Damon Knight

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Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (Tarzan, Book 11)

Robert Abbett, Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Shakespeare of London

Marchette Gaylord Chute

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An account of Shakespeare's life and times based on contemporary documents, none dated later than 1635.

Tarzan and the golden lion

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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As Tarzan travels through the jungle to the village of Opar, he encounters a treacherous Spaniard and his party, who intend great harm to the jungle lands.

Tarzan at the earth's core

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Escape on Venus (Carson Napier Adventures #4) (Ace SF Classic, 21561)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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The passionate journey

Irving Stone

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Last Tales

Isak Dinesen

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Twelve tales in which fantasy and reality are harmoniously intermingled. Their effect is hypnotic; they are evocations that enchant the reader and give him a long after-enjoyment of unforgettable stories told with unfailing sensibility and controlled artistry.

Tarzan and the Leopard Men

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Sex and the single girl

Helen Gurley Brown

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A history of pornography

H. Montgomery Hyde

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The night of the Puudly

Clifford D. Simak

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The Hurricane story

Paul Gallico

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Award winning author Paul Gallico (Poseidon Adventure, The Snow Goose) has turned his magic touch to the chronicle of the Hurricane -- the tenacious little single-seater plane that battled the Luftwaffe and won the Battle of Britain. More than just a story of a flying machine from its conception to obsolescence, this is also the recitation of acts of courage and heroism of the men who flew the Hurricane and the British people. So little existed, except this plane and their own valiant hearts, between the Brits and destruction -- or victory. Includes many documentary photos of the Battle of Britain on the ground and in the skies overhead.

Bugles and a tiger

John Masters

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John Masters whose military career in the Indian Army spanned two decades has written a thrilling account of the last days of the British Raj. Amidst the tensions of the civil disobedience movement led by Mahatma Gandhi the British army is hard put to maintain law and order . Not all the protests are non-violent and as tensions rise the romantic involvement of an army official with a beautiful Anglo-Indian girl makes for a compelling tales set against the background of the Indian Railway - the largest rail system in the world. History is in the making as a new Nation is born.