Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Son of Tarzan By Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Son Of Tarzan N#4 Alexis Paulvitch, a henchman of Tarzan's now-deceased enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, survived his encounter with the ape-man in The Beasts of Tarzan and wants to even the score. He lures Jack, Tarzan's son, away from London and into his clutches, but the youngster escapes with the help of the ape named Akut. The pair then flees into the deep African jungle where two decades earlier Tarzan himself had been raised. Jack Clayton, now on his own, becomes known as Korak the Killer and builds a reputation for himself in the jungle. Like his father before him, he finds his own place among the great apes, and also like his father, meets and rescues a beautiful young woman, Meriem, the daughter of a Captain in the French Foreign Legion, who was also a Prince (Prince de Cadrenet), named Armand Jacot. Arguably, the book is as much about Meriem, wife of Korak, as it is about Tarzan's son.

A Princess of Mars By Edgar Rice Burroughs

Entre mares helados, rodeado por acantilados inexpugnables, all donde ning n hombre se ha atrevido a poner el pie, se alza una isla continente descubierta brevemente por un explorador italiano que le dio su nombre: CAPRONA, conocida por sus extra os habitantes como Caspak. Es la tierra que el tiempo olvid , un rompecabezas evolutivo donde razas de hombres y animales juegan un extra o ritual que s lo puede tener dos resultados: la muerte o la ascensi n a un plano superior. De los dinosaurios a los mamuts, de los antepasados del Homo sapiens a los fantasmag ricos seres voladores que pueblan sus valles, cazadores y presas parecen proceder de un mismo limo primigenio que sigue sus propias reglas. Un mundo salvaje y violento, donde la vida no vale nada y los desdichados n ufragos que llegan a sus junglas descubrir n que ni siquiera su tecnolog a de hombres de los albores del siglo veinte puede asegurarles una superioridad para la que tendr n que luchar a brazo partido, en todo momento, contra hom nidos y bestias... Edgar Rice Burroughs le da la vuelta a las teor as de la evoluci n. El resultado, una aventura apasionante. La tercera novela, "Desde el abismo del tiempo" ("Out of time's abyss"), sigue un esquema muy similar a las anteriores, aunque las peque as diferencias resulten muy significativas. En esta ocasi n el protagonismo recae en Bradley, uno de los compa eros de Tyler en "La tierra olvidada por el tiempo" a quien se ha dado presuntamente por perdido en compa a de una peque a unidad de exploraci n. En realidad, Bradley resulta capturado por los Wieroos, una raza que compite con los Ga-lus por la supremacia en Caspak. Los Wieroos tienen apariencia m s o menos humana, aunque est n dotados de dos poderosas alas que les permiten vivir apartados de los monstruos prehist ricos, en una isla de la zona norte del mar interior. Desde tiempos inmemoriales, se dedican a capturar mujeres ga-lu con motivos puramente lujuriosos (pues no nacen hembras Wieroo), mientras buscan el secreto que les permita romper el ciclo evolutivo imperante en Caspak. Bradley, conducido a la principal ciudad Wieroo, debe luchar para escapar (en compa a, por supuesto, de una bella mujer, Co-tan, prisionera tambi n).

Warlord of Mars By Edgar Rice BurroughsOld acquaintances, made in the two other stories, reappear: Tars Tarkas, Tardos Mors and others. There is a happy ending to the story in the union of the Warlord, the title conferred upon John Carter, with Dejah Thoris. ht be such as to strike very close to me or to my friends. I wished that I might have found a point closer to the two men from which to have heard their conversation; but it was out of the question now to attempt to cross the river, and so I lay quietly watching them, who would have given so much to have known how close I lay to them, and how easily they might have overcome and killed me with their superior force. Several times Thurid pointed across the river in my direction, but that his gestures had any reference to me I did not for a moment believe. Presently he and Matai Shang entered the latter's boat, which turned out into the river and, swinging round, forged steadily across in my direction. As they advanced I moved my boat farther and farther in beneath the overhanging wall, but at last it became evident that their craft was holding the same course. The five paddlers sent the larger boat ahead at a speed that taxed my energies to equal. Every instant I expected to feel my p

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Tarzan And The Jewels Of Opar By Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan And The Jewels Of Opar #5 In the previous novel Tarzan and Jane's son, Jack Clayton, a.k.a. Korak, had come into his own. In this novel Tarzan returns to Opar, the source of the gold where a lost colony of fabled Atlantis is located, in order to make good on some financial reverses he has recently suffered. While Atlantis itself sank beneath the waves thousands of years ago, the workers of Opar continued to mine all of the gold, which means there is a rather huge stockpile but which is now lost to the memory of the Oparians and only Tarzan knows its secret location.

The Return of Tarzan By Edgar Rice Burroughs"Magnifique " ejaculated the Countess de Coude, beneath her breath. "Eh?" questioned the count, turning toward his young wife. "What is it that is magnificent?" and the count bent his eyes in various directions in quest of the object of her admiration. "Oh, nothing at all, my dear," replied the countess, a slight flush momentarily coloring her already pink cheek. "I was but recalling with admiration those stupendous skyscrapers, as they call them, of New York," and the fair countess settled herself more comfortably in her steamer chair, and resumed the magazine which "nothing at all" had caused her to let fall upon her lap.