Bücher von Edgar Rice Burroughs

The concluding part of the Caspak trilogy, 'Out of Times Abyss' written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is most adventurous and mysterious creation. It is most enjoyable science fantasy novel, out of the three books, the sequence was first published in 1918. Mostly, it is a story of expedition of Bradley and his team in the land of dinosaurs. Bradley's encounters with the predator flying Weiroo people and escape, is the most terrific part of the story. Here, Bradley emerges as action hero and rescues a native woman. They fall in love and they defeat the villains. The strength of this story is the society he evolves with the weiroos. Their society, customs and cruelty are fully analysed as Bradley is arrested and must make his escape.

A novel by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is the fifth of a 24-book series he wrote on the titular Tarzan. It was first published in the November and December 1916 issues of All-Story Cavalier Weekly, and McClurg published the first volume in 1918. In order to make up for some recent financial setbacks, Tarzan travels back to Opar, the location of a forgotten Atlantean colony and the source of its wealth. There is a significant cache of gold that was mined while Atlantis itself was submerged beneath the waves thousands of years ago, but which is now lost to the memory of the Oparians and only Tarzan is aware of its hidden position. Tarzan is discreetly followed to Opar by Albert Werper, a rapacious, outlawed Belgian army commander working for a crooked Arab. After getting hit on the head by a boulder that was falling during an earthquake in the treasure room, Tarzan there loses his memory. She had fallen in love with the apeman during their first encounter, and La and her high priests are not going to let Tarzan escape their sacrificial knives this time.

'The Beasts of Tarzan' is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, was first printed in book form in 1916. Tarzan is banished by Nicolas Rokoff to a wild African island. He gets the help of a panther and tribe of Great Apes to arrive at that mainland. He thinks Rokoff has kidnapped his wife and infant son. Tarzan determines to save him and hence commences the usual Burroughsian mix of amazing adventure. After Tarzan's son is kidnapped, Tarzan and Jane are allured into a dangerous web that separates them. In their frantic search for each other and for their son, they are dragged deep into the wild African jungle, where the evil deeds of Tarzan's enemies Rokoff and Paulvitch scared them at every step.

'Tarzan the Terrible' was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and printed in 1921. Tarzan is in search of his wife Jane and to do this he meets different races of civilized people. He helps them fight battles and solves some of their problems. He has followed his mate to Pal-ul-don, a hidden valley in which he traces a land of dinosaurs and men also even stranger humanoids with tails. With the achievements and skills of Tarzan they named him Tarzan-Jad-Guru (Tarzan the Terrible) which is the title of the book. In the end, Tarzan and Jane are rescued by their son Korak, who has been inquiring for Tarzan just as Tarzan has been inquiring for Jane. She becomes a centerpiece in a religious power struggle with the aid of his native allies. Tarzan continues to follow his beloved, going through an enlarged series of fights and escapes to do so.

'Tarzan of the Apes' was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and this was printed in 1914 as a novel. John and Alice Rutherford Clayton are deserted on the west coast of Africa with their infant son John. John's mother dies and his father is killed by Kerchak, the king ape and John is taken in by Kala, his ape mother. She renames him Tarzan and takes care as her son. Later, the son discovers his father's knife and uses it to become King of Apes. As a man, he experiences humans again when an expedition of white men comes into the jungle. Tarzan also makes friends with D'Arnot, a naval officer, who teaches him to act like a normal man and also teaches him how to speak French and later English. This is the story of a man who is nurtured in the African jungle by a tribe of apes.

'Tarzan the Untamed' is a book written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, related to the title character Tarzan. The time is of World War I in this novel. World War I provokes East Africa as German troops destroy the Greystokes' estate where Tarzan come back to obtain the burned ashes of his beloved Jane. Another casualty is the Waziri warrior Wasimbu, left killed by the Germans. Engrossed by revenge, the ape-man wages guerrilla warfare against the enemy, using his most wild tactics to help the Allies manage the captures from his land. As the British Army triumphs, Tarzan leaves to rejoin the great apes that are his family_ only to be opposed by a rashless wasteland that stands in his way. Having furnished a trial of unbelievable torment, he enters the inaccessible valley of xuja, the city of maniacs.

In 1915, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote a fantasy series of novel, Pellucidar. In his imagination, Burroughs created a fictional imaginary world, named Pellucidar. It is fictional 'hollow earth' invented by the author, reachable through polar tunnel. Edgar has made the story of inner world, inner sun, primitive civilization etc. realistic and believable. Pellucidar has primitive culture and inhabited by pre-historic creature including dinosaurs. Author depicts David Innes's and Abner Perry's struggle to free humanity from the Mahar tyranny. David Innes come back to Pellucidar in search of his friend Abner, as well as his love, Dian. He deals with the disputes following their initial discovery of Pellucidar, and challenge for the new, human civilisation.

Edger Rice Burroughs book 'Jungle Tales of Tarzan' is a collection of 12 short stories, published during 1916-1917. In these stories author narrates the adventures of Tarzan's life, his adventurous boyhood and teen years among the great apes and other wild creatures. Tarzan's inquisitive mind, his desire for love and family, all indicates, he is different from his foster ape tribe. Tarzan realizes and took the avenge of his foster ape mother and later becomes the leader of the tribe. All through his life, Tarzan struggles to cop with his original characteristics to his fostering features. These stories are from the life of Tarzan and delineate incidents in his life in the jungle. The best stories are the ones in which he tries to grow as a person despite the fact that he needs any human guidance. It's just a factual adventure anthology of tales of the jungle.

'The Chessmen of Mars' is a science fantasy by Edgar Rice Burroughs, was printed as a novel in 1922. The main characters of this novel are Carter's daughter Tara and Gahan of Gathol, prince of another kingdom. Tara is engaged and is angered when Gahan announces his love for her because she is not attracted to him. She departs in her flier, only to get seized in a big storm which sends her flying off into unexplored lands. She's apprehended by the awful Kaladanes, who plan to fallen her up for an approaching feast. She wins over one of the Kaladanes, Ghek and in the meantime, Gahan rushes to save the woman he's fallen for. Gahan arrives the city of Manator. Tara and Ghek are also seized. In the end, they are forced to engage in a duel to the death in a great game that is similar to chess.

'At the Earth's Core' is a novel of 1914 by Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 'At the Earth's Core', David Innes and Parry Abner move in a metal prospector into the Earth's crust and development into a world they never imagined with Sun drooping in the heavens. Besides the cave people and dinosaurs one of the most interesting idea is that time is man's creation and without the Sun rising and settling one loses track of time. This world is occupied by prehistoric animals as well as primitive humans, intelligent gorillas and pterosaurs.

The story is set in 13th century England and concerns the fictional outlaw Norman of Torn, who purportedly harried the country during the power struggle between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort. Norman is the supposed son of the Frenchman de Vac, once the king's fencing master, who has a grudge against his former employer and raises the boy to be a simple, brutal killing machine with a hatred of all things English. His intentions are partially subverted by a priest who befriends Norman and teaches him his letters and chivalry towards women.Norman leads the largest band of thieves in all of England at age 19. None can catch or best him. In his hatred for the king he even becomes involved in the civil war, which turns the tide in favour of de Montfort. In another guise, that of Roger de Conde, he becomes involved with de Montfort's daughter Bertrade, defending her against her and her father's enemies. She notes in him a curious resemblance to the king's son and heir Prince Edward.Finally brought to bay in a confrontation with both King Henry and de Montfort, Norman is brought down by the treachery of de Vac, who appears to kill him, though at the cost of his own life. As de Vac dies, he reveals that Norman is in fact Richard, long-lost son of King Henry and Queen Eleanor and brother to Prince Edward. The fencing master had kidnapped the prince as a child to serve as the vehicle of his vengeance against the king. Luckily, Norman/Richard turns out not to be truly dead, surviving to be reconciled to his true father and attain the hand of Bertrade.