7 Best Short Stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs

7 Best Short Stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-01-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8577770338
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Edgar Rice Burroughs only entered The Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2003 - more than 50 years after his death - but at this point he had a place of honor in the hearts and minds of science fiction, adventure and fantasy lovers. Its iconic characters, such as Tarzan and John Carter, became icons of pop culture and influenced all who came after. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: Tarzan's First Love A Jungle Joke Tarzan Rescues the Moon John Carter and the Giant Of Mars The Ancient Dead Beyond Thirty Skeleton Men of Jupiter

Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure

Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure
Author: Richard A. Lupoff
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473208718
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So, just how was Tarzan created? Eager to know the inside story about the legendary John Carter and the amazing cities and peoples of Barsoom? Perhaps your taste is more suited to David Innes and the fantastic lost world at the Earth's core? Or maybe wrong-way Napier and the bizarre civilizations of cloud-enshrouded Venus are more to your liking? These pages contain all that you will ever want to know about the wondrous worlds and unforgettable characters penned by the master storyteller Edgar Rice Burroughs. Richard A. Lupoff, the respected critic and writer who helped spark a Burroughs revival in the 1960s, reveals fascinating details about the stories written by the creator of Tarzan. Featured here are outlines of all of Burroughs's major novels, with descriptions of how they were each written and their respective sources of inspiration.

Robert Ludlum's The Lazarus Vendetta

Robert Ludlum's The Lazarus Vendetta
Author: Robert Ludlum
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2010-02-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1409122069
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A thrilling Covert-One novel, from the world's No. 1 bestselling international author. In the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics, a once grassroots anti-globalisation movement has been slowly taken over by an underground radical anti-technology group fronted by a mysterious figure known only as Lazarus. All attempts to infiltrate the group have failed, and the intelligence agents involved have disappeared without trace. Now Lazarus is preparing to make his boldest move yet. Lt Col. Jon Smith is activated by Covert-One to bring his skills to bear in uncovering the truth behind the terrorists. For, unbeknown to the world at large, the Lazarus Movement is on the brink of setting in motion a deadly scheme that will risk the lives of billions and for ever change the nature of the world.

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 1

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 1
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 5998
Release: 2019-02-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8577770699
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This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - H.P. Lovecraft, - Edgar Allan Poe, - Arthur Conan Doyle, - Katherine Mansfield, - Jack London, - Guy de Maupassant, - Virginia Woolf, F. - Scott Fitzgerald, - Edith Wharton, - Stephen Crane, - Susan Glaspell, - Kate Chopin, - Laura E. Richards, - Alice Dunbar-Nelson, - Louisa May Alcott, - Hans Christian Andersen, - Charles Dickens, - Nathaniel Hawthorne, - Henry James, - Mark Twain, - Charlotte Perkins, - Elizabeth Gaskell, - Herman Melville, - James Joyce, - Leo Tolstoy, - Nikolai Gogol, - Anton Chekhov, - Fyodor Dostoevsky, - Maxim Gorky, - Leonid Andreyev, - Ivan Turgenev, - Joseph Conrad, - Aleksander Pushkin, - Robert Louis Stevenson, - Robert E. Howard, - G. K. Chesterton, - Edgar Wallace, - Arthur Machen, - Ambrose Bierce, - Talbot Mundy, - Abraham Merritt, - Zane Grey, - Edgar Rice Burroughs, - Oscar Wilde, - Rudyard Kipling, - E.T.A. Hoffman, - Bram Stoker, - H.G. Wells, - Franz Kafta - Washington Irving.

I Am a Barbarian

I Am a Barbarian
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1967
Genre: Rome
ISBN:
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The decadent era of the Caesers as seen through the eyes of the barbarian slave, Brittanicus.

Tarzan and the lost empire

Tarzan and the lost empire
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2023-07-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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"Tarzan and the lost empire" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Escape on Venus

Escape on Venus
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: Jovian Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2017-12-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1537803557
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Escape on Venus is the fourth book in the Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series") by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It consists of four interconnected stories published in Fantasic Adventures between 1941 and 1942: "Slaves of the Fishmen," "Goddess of Fire," "The Living Dead," and "War on Venus."

7 best short stories by Otis Adelbert Kline

7 best short stories by Otis Adelbert Kline
Author: Otis Adelbert Kline
Publisher: Tacet Books
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2020-05-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3968588754
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Otis Adelbert Kline was a songwriter, an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E. Hoffmann Price. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment: - The Corpse on the Third Slab. - The Man from the Moon. - The Cup of Blood. - Mignight Madness. - The Malignant Entity. - The Bird-People. - The Thing of a Thousand Shapes.

John Carter of Mars

John Carter of Mars
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: eStar Books
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612104908
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This book includes: John Carter and the Giants of Mars and The Skeleton Men of Jupiter

John Carter of Mars

John Carter of Mars
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 945
Release:
Genre: Carter, John (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9781435149915
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"Page-turners filled with interplanetary perils and thrilling romance, these five epic adventure tales remapped the terrain of fantasy and science fiction." ==P. [4] of cover.