Full name: Edgar Rice Burroughs: master of adventure

Author: Richard A. Lupoff Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780803280304 0803280300

So, just how was Tarzan created? Eager to know the inside story about the legendary John Carter and the amazing cities and peoples of Barsoom? Perhaps your taste is more suited to David Innes and the fantastic lost world at the Earth’s core? Or maybe wrong-way Napier and the bizarre civilizations of cloud-enshrouded Venus are more to your liking? These pages contain all that you will ever want to know about the wondrous worlds and unforgettable characters penned by the master storyteller Edgar Rice Burroughs. Richard A. Lupoff, the respected critic and writer who helped spark a Burroughs revival in the 1960s, reveals fascinating details about the stories written by the creator of Tarzan. Featured here are outlines of all of Burroughs’s major novels, with descriptions of how they were each written and their respective sources of inspiration. This Bison Books edition includes a new foreword by fantasy writer Michael Moorcock, a new introduction by the author, a final chapter by Phillip R. Burger, as well as corrected text and an updated bibliography. Similar books: Edgar Rice Burroughs by Irwin Porges I Am Alive and You Are Dead by Emmanuel Carrere The Bradbury Chronicles by Sam Weller George Orwell by Gordon Bowker Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley Bravemouth by Pamela Stephenson Salinger by David Shields Blood and Thunder by Mark Finn Private Demons by Judy Oppenheimer Audrey Hepburn by Barry Paris Georgette Heyer by Jennifer Kloester Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee Who Was Amelia Earhart? by Kate Boehm Jerome Alice James by Jean Strouse Wired by Bob Woodward