Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 - 1950)
Edgar Rice Burroughs was a prolific American author of the 'pulp' era. The son of a Civil War veteran, he saw brief military service with the 7TH U.S. Cavalry before he was diagnosed with a heart problem and discharged. After working for five years in his father's business, Burroughs left for a string of disparate and short-lived jobs, and was working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler when he decided to try his hand at writing. He found almost instant success when his story 'Under the Moons of Mars' was serialised in All-Story Magazine in 1912, earning him the then-princely sum of $400.
Burroughs went on to have tremendous success as a writer, his wide-ranging imagination taking in other planets (John Carter of Mars and Carson of Venus), a hollow earth (Pellucidar), a lost world, westerns, historicals and adventure stories. Although he wrote in many genres, Burroughs is best known for his creation of the archetypal jungle hero, Tarzan. Edgar Rice Burroughs died in 1950.
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Beyond Thirty is a science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first published in 1916. The story is set in the year 2137, where the western hemisphere has severed contact with the rest of the world, and the eastern hemisphere has exhausted itself in war and descended into barbarism. The protagonist, Lieutenant Jefferson Turck, is commander of the aero-submarine Coldwater, which becomes stranded in the forbidden England. Turck and his companions find England a wilderness inhabited by savages and overrun by lions descended from zoo animals. They rescue Victory, daughter of the king, from the henchmen of Buckingham, a local strongman who has killed her father. Turck and Victory join the other Americans, and the combined party sails to the European mainland, also reduced to savagery. Turck and Victory fall separately into the hands of soldiers of the Abyssinian Empire, a black super-state now ruling all of Africa, most of Europe, and the Arabian Peninsula. Turck rescues Victory during an attack on New Gondar by the forces of China, which have been advancing into Europe from the east. The couple is captured by the invaders, but made honored guests once the Chinese have heard their story. The copyright for this story has expired in the United States and, thus, now resides in the public domain there.
Título : The Lost Continent: A Quick Read edition
EAN : 9782385820886
Editorial : Quick Read
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