Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
The Land That Time Forgot de Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Land That Time Forgot

Autor Edgar Rice Burroughs
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2006

Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public's imagination. This omnibus edition includes all three volumes in his Caspak series: The Land That Time Forgot, The People That Time Forgot, and Out of Time's Abyss, all first published in book form in 1924. Considered Burroughs' most thrilling science-fiction adventure stories, they regale us with the daring escapades of modern men on the remote prehistoric island of Caspak, where dinosaurs still roam, Neanderthals still hunt, and monstrous winged creatures rule the skies. American novelist EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950) wrote dozens of adventure, crime, and science fiction novels that are still beloved today, including Tarzan of the Apes (1912), At the Earth's Core (1914), A Princess of Mars (1917), and Pirates of Venus (1934). He is reputed to have been reading a comic book when he died.

Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (21) 3977 lei  22-36 zile
  Mint Editions – mar 2021 3977 lei  22-36 zile
  CREATESPACE – 4359 lei  22-36 zile
  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – 4437 lei  22-36 zile
  CREATESPACE – 4862 lei  22-36 zile
  – 5128 lei  22-36 zile
  – 5173 lei  22-36 zile
  CREATESPACE – 5329 lei  22-36 zile
  – 5674 lei  22-36 zile
  Lector House – 8 iul 2019 6209 lei  43-57 zile
  CREATESPACE – 6530 lei  22-36 zile
  1st World Library – 6947 lei  43-57 zile
  Touchladybirdlucky Studios – 19 oct 2013 7021 lei  43-57 zile
  DOUBLE 9 BOOKSLLP – 2023 7466 lei  43-57 zile +1380 lei  5-11 zile
  – 7648 lei  22-36 zile
  Echo Library – 30 iun 2003 7692 lei  22-36 zile
  Fénix Press – 30 iul 2023 7722 lei  22-36 zile
  Bottom of the Hill Publishing – sep 2011 8331 lei  43-57 zile
  COSIMO CLASSICS – 30 sep 2006 10454 lei  43-57 zile
  BISON BOOKS – mar 1999 11320 lei  22-36 zile
  Echo Library – 30 apr 2006 12524 lei  22-36 zile
  Blurb – 10 feb 2019 20684 lei  38-44 zile
Hardback (2) 16539 lei  43-57 zile
  1st World Library – 16539 lei  43-57 zile
  Borgo Press – 19876 lei  43-57 zile

Preț: 10454 lei

Puncte Express: 157
Preț estimativ în valută:
1849€ • 2170$ • 1604£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 09-23 martie

 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781596055537
ISBN-10: 1596055537
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: COSIMO CLASSICS

Notă biografică

Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author of adventure novels who is popularly known for his fictional character, Tarzan. Burroughs belonged to a privileged family and became disappointed in his business profession. Hence, he took to writing sci-fi stories before coming up with the imagination of a young boy raised by apes in the African wilderness. The fundamental reason for the Tarzan stories didn't appear to have reasoning. However, the readers loved the concept of fiction. Tarzan turned out to be gigantically famous, and Burroughs became affluent as Tarzan's popularity expanded. His adventures got depicted in quiet movies, talkies, radio serials, funny cartoons, and in the long run TV programs. Edgar Rice Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875, in Chicago, Illinois. His father was a successful businessman and Burroughs was instructed in private schools as a youngster. Along with going to the Michigan Military Academy, he simultaneously joined the U.S. Mounted force and served for a year in the American West. He didn't take to life in the military and utilized family associations to get out and get back to regular citizen life. Burroughs attempted a few business plans but finally settled down to working for the conspicuous retailer Sears, Roebuck, and Company. Disappointed at going into business, he took up writing to leave the business world. In 1911, when the general population was captivated by speculations about what gave off an impression of being waterways on the outer layer of Mars, Burroughs was enlivened to compose a story about the red planet. The story previously showed up in a sci-fi magazine, and at last, was distributed as a book under the title 'A Prince of Mars'. The story includes the character, John Carter, a Virginia courteous fellow who awakens on Mars. Several other books were followed after this book which had John Carter in them. While composing the books about an Earthman relocated to Mars, Burroughs concocted one more person put in odd environmental elements. His new creation, Tarzan, was the child of an English blue-blood whose family was marooned on the African coast. His mother passed away while his father was murdered, and the child, whose English name was John Clayton, was raised by apes who were not known to the rest of the world. As composed by Burroughs, Tarzan is a wild child who grows up untainted by the issues of civilization. However, his refined upbringing radiates through occasions that make him agreeable in cultivated society. One more character bought into the light by Burroughs was Tarzan's love interest (and inevitable spouse), Jane, the girl of an American teacher who becomes abandoned in the wilderness and encounters Tarzan. Edgar Rice Burroughs made a huge amount of money from Tarzan yet some awful business choices that included gambling not long before the Great Depression started, imperiled his wealth. He purchased a farm in California and named it Tarzana which for the most part lost money. (At the point when the close by local area joined, they involved Tarzana as the name of the town.) Continuously feeling short on funds, he composed Tarzan books at a fierce speed. He likewise got back to sci-fi, writing and publishing a few books set in the world of Venus. Using the experience of living in the West in his childhood, he composed four other western books. During World War II, Burroughs filled in as a conflict journalist in the South Pacific. Following the conflict, he battled an ailment and died due to a respiratory failure on March 19, 1950. The books of Edgar Rice Burroughs brought in cash, however, they were never viewed as genuine writing. Most critics excused them as mash experiences. He has additionally been condemned in ongoing a very long time for bigoted topics which show up in his works. In his accounts, the white characters are regularly better than the local people group of Africans. Tarzan, a white Englishman, regularly comes to overwhelm or effec...

Recenzii

"Students of early science fiction will welcome the University of Nebraska Press's series Bison Frontiers of Imagination."—Times Literary Supplement

Descriere

Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
When adventurer Bowen Tyler is taken captive aboard an enemy submarine, he never dreams that his voyage will end in Caspak, the land that time forgot. Stranded on the beach he faces dangers, falls in love with a jungle princess--and unravels the secret of Caspak.