THE "TARZAN" BOOKS
by
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
A white child of noble lineage brought up by a tribe of gigantic anthropoid apes and becoming, by virtue of his fighting ability and superior mentality, King of the tribe and Master of the Jungle. Such was Tarzan, the most popular character in fiction today, as introduced to the public in "Tarzan of the Apes."
A sequel to "Tarzan of the Apes." It deals in its opening chapters with the young giant of the jungle in civilization, meeting wherever he goes with adventures as strange and thrilling as those of his boyhood in the primeval forests. Then it tells of Tarzan's return to the tropical wilderness and of his astounding adventures with ferocious animals and savage native tribes.
Another great jungle yarn. Tarzan's wife and child are abducted by his enemies. He follows them to Wildest Africa and, with a yell and a bound, is back at home again among the beasts of the jungle, plunging into a series of adventures, so startling, exciting, and hair-raising that one gasps with astonishment.
Tarzan's son inherits his father's love of the jungle and by an extraordinary combination of circumstances is taken to the African Wilderness. The lore of the jungle came easily to him; he battles mightily with Numa, the Lion, with Hista, the Snake, with crafty savages and slave traders till there is no one greater in the forest than Korak (the Killer), son of Tarzan.
Tarzan visited the mysterious ruined city of Opar that flourished in the days of bygone civilization but was now inhabited by a strange horde of blood-thirsty, apelike priests headed by La, the beautiful High-Priestess of the Flaming God. At that time he brought back a very small portion indeed of the immense store of ingots of flaming gold which he discovered. The present story tells why Tarzan returned to the mysterious city and what he found there.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan presents new adventures and desperate encounters in his native jungle. His conflict with Bukawai, the old witch-doctor, in which he meets craft with craft; the grim jokes he perpetrated upon the terrorized blacks of Mbonga's tribe; his conflicts with the fierce denizens of the forest, all have their part in this thrilling narrative.
One of the biggest stories that ever came down the pike; new adventures of the marvelous Tarzan, the ape-man wonder.
The matchless Tarzan has captured the hearts of the great reading public, and his thrilling experiences in Africa among fierce lions, huge manlike apes, and strange, savage races will be followed with increased interest.
"Tarzan the Untamed" is good, exceedingly good, and Tarzan fans all over the world will find in this new series of Tarzan adventures all the fascination, all the charm, all the pleasure they known and have felt previously in following the fortunes of the marvelous ape-man.
Wherever this wonder-tale has been read it has created an insistent cry for More Tarzan.
THE "MARTIAN" BOOKS
by
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
A tale of adventure and romance forty-three million miles from Earth, that is the boldest piece of imaginative fiction in this generation.
John Carter, American, goes to sleep in a mysterious cave in the Arizona desert and wakes to find himself on the planet Mars. He meets with a succession of weird and astounding adventures, told in that fascinating and realistic way that belongs to Burroughs alone.
Think for a moment of this young American battling for a very beautiful woman, with creatures fifteen feet high, and of fearsome aspect with two extra limbs, which will function either as legs or arms, mounted on horses like dragons, and attended by watch-dogs like enormous frogs with ten legs, and you can get some idea of the thrills in the yarn.
Only the man who created Tarzan, the ape-man, could write so bold a story.
Continuing the stirring adventures narrated in "A Princess of Mars", sturdy John Carter of Virginia finds himself once more upon the strange planet forty-three million miles from earth. How he recovers his wife and son; how he fights the great white apes and the "plant men," ferocious creatures with sucking mouths in the palms of their hands, and whose mighty tails swish their victims to instant death; and how he defies even Issus herself, terrible Goddess of Death, whom all Mars worships and reveres, are among the gripping episodes described in this second daring narrative of adventures on the dying planet of Barsoom.
The author, pastmaster creator of tales extraordinary, has here given a new story written with all the inimitable vigor and marvellous imagination which have made his famous "Tarzan" stories the delight of countless admirers.
This new tale, the third of the Martian series, is a continuation of the amazing adventures of John Carter of Virginia on the strange planet forty-three million miles from Earth.
And such adventures! Battles with warriors (green men and red men) fifteen feet in height, and mounted on horses shaped like dragons; fights on airships and encounters with monsters—grim and terrible banths, fearsome white apes—and other foes in the bowels of the Earth, his only helper being Woola, the huge ten-legged Martian hound.
After matching his wits with two of the most unscrupulous scoundrels on the whole planet, John Carter succeeds in recovering his wife, "a world’s most beautiful woman," and is made Jeddak of Jeddaks, Warlord of Mars.
It is a wild and fantastic tale—a triumph of imagination.