ERB: THRILLOGY

by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Douglas Klauba (Illustrator), Roger Alford (Editor), Bill Cunningham (Introduction)

Overview

Thrillogy is an ongoing e-series of digital books celebrating pulp authors of yesteryear by collecting three of their classic novels together and pairing them with all new illustrations by some of the hottest artists around. This edition showcases the "Master of Adventure" Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous works: A PRINCESS OF MARS (the basis for the new motion picture JOHN CARTER), TARZAN OF THE APES and THE MUCKER. Each novel is a rip-roaring action adventure, and packaging them this way gives you 3X the fun for one low, low price... We hope you'll enjoy this and other editions in the THRILLOGY series.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014018623
Publisher:	Pulp 2.0 Press
Publication date:	01/25/2012
Series:	Thrillogy , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

His father had been a major in the Union army during the Civil War. Edgar Rice Burroughs attended the Brown School then, due to a diphtheria epidemic, Miss Coolie's Maplehurst School for Girls, then the Harvard School, Phillips Andover and the Michigan Military Academy. He was a mediocre student and flunked his examination for West Point. He worked a variety of jobs all over the country: a cowboy in Idaho, a gold miner in Oregon, a railroad policeman in Utah, a department manager for Sears Roebuck in Chicago. He published "A Princess of Mars" under the title "Under the Moons of Mars" in six parts between February and July of 1912. The same "All-Story Magazine" put out his immediately successful "Tarzan of the Apes" in October of that year. Two years later the hardback book appeared, and on January 27, 1918, the movie opened on Broadway starring Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan. It was one of the first movies to gross over $1,000,000. Burroughs was able to move his family to the San Fernando Valley in 1919, converting a huge estate into Tarzana Ranch. He was in Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 and remained in Hawaii as a war correspondent. Afterward he returned home with a heart condition. On March 19, 1950, alone in his home after reading the Sunday comics in bed, he died. By then he had written 91 novels, 26 of which were about Tarzan. The man whose books have sold hundreds of millions of copies in over thirty languages once said "I write to escape ... to escape poverty".