A Treasury of Edgar Rice Burroughs

Burroughs, Edgar Rice: - Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American novelist and one of the most influential creators of popular adventure fiction in the twentieth century. Born in Chicago in 1875, Burroughs worked in a variety of jobs before turning to fiction and quickly finding success in the pulp magazines. His imagination ranged across jungles, deserts, lost cities, prehistoric worlds, alien planets, and heroic frontiers, and his fiction helped define several overlapping traditions: jungle adventure, lost-world romance, planetary romance, science fantasy, and fast-paced pulp storytelling.Burroughs is best remembered as the creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, but his wider body of work is much broader than those two famous figures suggest. His novels and stories brought together danger, romance, survival, exotic geography, ancient civilisations, strange creatures, and bold speculative premises in a form that proved enormously influential on later science fiction, fantasy, comics, film serials, and adventure fiction. For readers of classic science fiction and fantasy, Burroughs remains a central figure: a writer whose instinct for momentum, setting, and wonder helped shape the imaginative vocabulary of modern popular storytelling.