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John Carter of Mars: Burroughs’s Other Mythology
In 1911, a failed pencil-sharpener salesman in Chicago, deep in debt and convinced he could write garbage at least as well as the garbage filling the pulp…
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Conan the Cimmerian: Robert E. Howard and the Birth of Sword and Sorcery
In June 1936, in Cross Plains, Texas, a thirty-year-old man learned that his mother would not wake from her final coma. He walked out to his car, took a…
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Arsène Lupin: The Gentleman Thief Who Mocked Sherlock Holmes
At the end of his great duel with the English detective, Arsène Lupin loses. The case is decided against him; the master of method has, on points,…
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Lost Worlds and Lost Cities: The Best Adventure Classics
What are the best classic adventure novels?
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Allan Quatermain and the Lost-World Adventure
What is a lost-world adventure novel?
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Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan, Mars, and Pulp Adventure
Where should I start with Edgar Rice Burroughs?