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  • Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Science Fiction, Classics
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    The book does have some inventive and original ideas, including an autopilot and collision detection device for Martian fliers and the creation of the Lotharians, a race of ancient martians who have become adept at telepathic projection, able to create imaginary warriors that can kill, and sustain themselves through thought alone. Fortunately, though, Carthoris is every bit the...
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    12,78 €

  • The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Science Fiction
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    The year is 2137. Two hundred years ago -- in our time, more or less -- Eurasia fought a war to end all wars, a war that meant, for all intents and purposes, the end of the Old World. The Americans managed to retain their civilization -- but only by engaging by the most extreme form or isolationism imaginable for two centuries, now, no American has ventured east of the thirtiet...
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    11,25 €

  • The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Science Fiction
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    Is the mysterious Panthan warrior friend or foe? As hero battles for maiden in a deadly game of living chess, the pieces are fighting men and the stakes are life and death! Burroughs began writing The Chessmen of Mars in January, 1921 and the finished story was first published in Argosy All-Story Weekly as a six-part serial in the issues for February and March of 1922. #5 in Bu...
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    15,01 €

  • The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    Like father, like son. Alexis Paulvitch survived the vengeance of Tarzan . . . and now he wants revenge. He means to lure Greystoke’s son, young Jack Clayton, away from London, and do away with him. But Jack Clayton is smarter than Paulvitch reckons. He foils the plot, escaping into the jungle with the help of Akut, the great ape. The pair flee to the same African jungle where ...
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    18,08 €

  • The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    At the start of this volume, Tarzan knows his inheritance as an English lord, but is determined to hide that since he truly believes that his cousin, William Cecil Clayton, would make a better lord and husband for his beloved Jane. He gets involved with a married Russian countess (there's a plan! -- oh, sure) who has issues with her criminal brother (Nicholas Rokoff -- a re...
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    17,26 €

  • At the Earth’s Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Science Fiction, Literary
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    When Abner Perry invents a vehicle that essentially drills through the earth, he takes it to his good friend (and independently wealthy man about town) David Ennis. And what else can they do? Drill down into the earth, of course. What they find there isn’t what we’d expect: it’s an inner world called Pellicidar, a place where the sun neither sets nor rises -- because what appea...
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    11,95 €

  • Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    . . . .  between Tarzan's avenging of his ape foster mother's death and his becoming leader of his ape tribe. In JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN, Burroughs gives us an Ape-Man who might have fit in a television sitcom or a domestic drama. We see a Tarzan whose character is barely hinted at in the events of Tarzan on the Apes -- this is a collection of stories that take place in ...
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    15,02 €

  • Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    Here Tarzan returns to Opar, the source of the gold for lost Atlantis. Ages ago Atlantis sunk beneath the waves -- but the denizens of Opar still mine the gold of this lost colony. Tarzan, following greedy pair -- one Belgian, one Arab -- into the jungle, where they stumble into the lost city. Bad enough -- and then Tarzan injures his head in a fight and loses his memory. That&...
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    15,06 €

  • Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    A ship’s mutiny forces a young noble English couple out onto the African coast, and their child is born in the wild. When they die a short time later, the boy is adopted by an ape, and raised as her own. The boy, Tarzan, rises to dominance in the jungle . . . TARZAN OF THE APES is Edgar Rice Burroughs’s exploration of mankind a it’s seen from the perspective of a man reared out...
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    17,28 €

  • Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    In the previous volume, the Lord of the Jungle discovered the burnt corpse of his wife, Jane, after a visit to his African home by German soldiers. (One suspects that Burroughs never did like Jane; this sort of thing happened to her a lot.) In this volume, Tarzan learns that Jane was not murdered by the Germans but kidnaped -- and sets off in pursuit. As the novel begins, Tarza...
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    15,76 €

  • Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    A unit of German soldiers stumble on the estate of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, in British East Africa in the fall of 1914. Tarzan and his son, Korak, are away, and Jane -- Lady Jane -- does not know that war has broken out between German and the British Empire. She welcomes them to her home. Meanwhile, Tarzan learns of the war in Nairobi and hurries home only to find the smok...
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    14,26 €

  • The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
     As THE BEASTS OF TARZAN begins, Tarzan -- as Lord Greystoke -- is settled in civilized London. But two of his enemies, Nikolas Rokoff and henchman Alexis Paulvitch, are on his trail. The pair abducts Jane -- and Tarzan’s son, Jack. Tarzan himself is stranded on a desert island, but with the help of Sheeta the panther and Akut the great ape he makes it back to the mainland. The...
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    15,09 €

  • The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Science Fiction, Adventure
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    At the end of A PRINCESS OF MARS, the first volume in Burroughs’s Mars series, John Carter managed to get the factory that produces oxygen for Barsoom working again -- and collapsed. When he came to, he found himself back on earth, and separated from his beloved Dejah Thoris, the Princess of Helium. It’s a decade later when Carter returns to Barsoom, and he finds himself in tha...
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    16,54 €

  • The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Science Fiction, Fantasy
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    When adventurer Bowen Tyler was taken captive aboard an enemy submarine, he never dreamed that his voyage would end in the land that time forgot. It is a land called Caspak, a land of myth and fable: located somewhere on a mountainous island in the South Pacific, populated with winged, humanlike creatures, dinosaurs, ferocious beasts of prey, Neanderthals, 'wild ape-men,' and m...
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    11,29 €

  • The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Fantasy
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote this tale of confused identity and royal intrigue in 1914 and 1915, as World War I was getting ready to happen: it means to be an homage to Anthony Hope’s Prisoner of Zenda. But, of course, it isn’t Hope writing, but Burroughs: the events that led to the war inform the book, and it speaks to the real events happening as Burroughs wrote. That makes it ...
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    32,55 €

  • Tarzan of the Apes
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    Most people have heard of the legendary Tarzan, who was rescued and then raised by the great apes of Africa. This was the first Tarzan book written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It describes how Tarzan grew and learned in the jungle, brought up by his fierce and protective foster mother, Kala. Tarzan learned so well that he grew up to become leader of his tribe of apes, only to be d...
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    14,32 €

  • The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Science Fiction, Fantasy
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    When adventurer Bowen Tyler was taken captive aboard an enemy submarine, he never dreamed that his voyage would end in the land that time forgot. It is a land called Caspak, a land of myth and fable: located somewhere on a mountainous island in the South Pacific, populated with winged, humanlike creatures, dinosaurs, ferocious beasts of prey, Neanderthals, 'wild ape-men,' and m...
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    27,30 €

  • The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Science Fiction
    Edgar Rice Burroughs
    The year is 2137. Two hundred years ago -- in our time, more or less -- Eurasia fought a war to end all wars, a war that meant, for all intents and purposes, the end of the Old World. The Americas managed to retain their civilization -- but only by engaging by the most extreme form or isolationism imaginable for two centuries, now, no American has ventured east of the thirtieth...
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    28,11 €


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