Edgar Rice Burroughs
62) 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...
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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.
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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!
69) The Man Eater
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A native woman working in the little cultivated patch just outside the palisade which surrounded the mission was the first to see them. Her scream penetrated to the living room of the little thatched bungalow where the Rev. Sangamon Morton sat before a table. He had heard such screams before. The one thing always uppermost in his mind and the one, great, abiding terror of their lives there in the midst of the savage African jungle was the Wakandas....
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Tarzan volume 22
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While serving in the R.A.F. under his civilian name of John Clayton, Tarzan is shot down over the island of Sumatra in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies. He uses his jungle survival skills to save his comrades in arms, and they fight the Japanese while seeking escape from enemy territory.
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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...
73) 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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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
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Written during the heyday of the pulp fiction era by Edgar Rice Burroughs-the renowned author of the immensely popular Tarzan novels-these thrilling adventure tales are filled with swashbuckling derring-do and romance. Complete with a glossary of characters and places, a map, and a new introduction by science-fiction novelist and scholar Brian Stableford, John Carter of Mars, Vol. 2-featuring the fourth and fifth novels in the series: Thuvia, Maid...
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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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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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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...
80) Swords of Mars
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Barsoom series volume 8
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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.