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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"The Land That Time Forgot" is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Caspak trilogy. The story was first published in Blue Book Magazine as a three-part serial in 1918. The novel is set in World War I and opens with a framing story in which a manuscript relating the main story is recovered from a thermos off the coast of Greenland. The story ultimately develops into a lost world story reminiscent of such novels as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World and Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island and Journey to the Center of the Earth. The novel features a unique biological system for the lost world, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. The novel was adapted to film in 1974 and inspired two more Burroughs adaptations. A second film adaptation of the same name was released in 2009. In July 2016, publisher American Mythology Productions released a comic book sequel by writer Mike Wolfer and artist Giancarlo Caracuzzo. The copyright for this story has expired in the United States and, thus, now resides in the public domain there.
Título : The Land That Time Forgot: A Quick Read edition
EAN : 9782385822026
Editorial : Quick Read
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