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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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 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...

How the series evolves

beginning
#16 Tarzan and the City of Gold
0.0· tough start
peak
Shannon's way
5.0· best book in series
finale
The road past Mandalay
5.0· sticks the landing
overall
1.8· maybe series needed more care

Books in this Series

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Tarzan and the City of Gold

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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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Crime in America

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Discusses various aspects of crime in America, including crime in the streets, battered family members, the Mob, and law enforcement.

The Lockwood concern

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The citizens of Swedish Haven, Pennsylvania wonder why on earth George Lockwood is building an eight-foot brick wall around thirty acres of land--Novelist.

Shannon's way

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Story of Robert Shannon's experiences as a medical research worker and his love affair with a girl of different religious faith.

Shakespeare of London

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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

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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.

Bride of liberty

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Two teen girls and a boy participate in the American Revolutionary War.

Sex and the single girl

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Before Sex and the City, before Bridget Jones, there was Helen Gurley Brown, the real-life editor in chief of Cosmopolitan. In this deliciously tantalizing book, Cosmo's leading lady told women how to be glamorous and sophisticated and how to fill their lives with romance and delectable men. She showed women how to meet men and sweep them off their feet-all while looking and feeling fabulously sexy. Since that time, sexual attitudes may have changed, but the art of being a woman has not. Still provocative after all these years, Brown celebrates the pleasures of flirting, of enjoying affairs from beginning to end, throwing brunches and dinner parties, finding men where you might not think to look, dating (and ditching) married men, and being both feminine and powerful.--From publisher description.

The Hurricane story

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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.

Tarzan Triumphant

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Tarzan comes to grips with the degenerate descendants of early Christian refugees from Rome--and makes a lifelong friend of an exgangster from Chicago.

The road past Mandalay

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A personal story of the Second World War in Burms. India, and Mandalay.