At the Earth's Core de Edgar Rice Burroughs

At the Earth's Core

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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At the Earth's Core is a 1914 fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar. It first appeared as a four-part serial in All-Story Weekly from April 4-25, 1914. It was first published in book form in hardcover by A. C. McClurg in July, 1922. The author relates how, traveling in the Sahara desert, he has encountered a remarkable vehicle and its pilot, David Innes, a man with a remarkable story to tell. Back in the world we know David meets the author, who after hearing his tale and seeing his prehistoric captive, helps him resupply and prepare the mole for the return to Pellucidar. PROLOG: IN THE FIRST PLACE PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THAT I do not expect you to believe this story. Nor could you wonder had you witnessed a recent experience of mine when, in the armor of blissful and stupendous ignorance, I gaily narrated the gist of it to a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society on the occasion of my last trip to London. You would surely have thought that I had been detected in no less a heinous crime than the purloining of the Crown Jewels from the Tower, or putting poison in the coffee of His Majesty the King. The erudite gentleman in whom I confided congealed before I was half through -it is all that saved him from exploding-and my dreams of an Honorary Fellowship, gold medals, and a niche in the Hall of Fame faded into the thin, cold air of his arctic atmosphere. But I believe the story, and so would you, and so would the learned Fellow of the Royal Geological Society, had you and he heard it from the lips of the man who told it to me. Had you seen, as I did, the fire of truth in those gray eyes; had you felt the ring of sincerity in that quiet voice; had you realized the pathos of it all-you, too, would believe. You would not have needed the final ocular proof that I had-the weird rhamphorhynchus-like creature which he had brought back with him from the inner world. I came upon him quite suddenly, and no less unexpectedly, upon the rim of the great Sahara Desert. He was standing before a goat-skin tent amidst a clump of date palms within a tiny oasis. Close by was an Arab douar of some eight or ten tents.

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BISON BOOKS – 29 feb 2000	96^.09 lei 3-5 săpt.	+27^.94 lei 4-10 zile
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Lector House – 21 iun 2019	77^.53 lei 6-8 săpt.
Waking Lion Press – 29 iul 2008	80^.41 lei 6-8 săpt.
1st World Library –	81^.10 lei 6-8 săpt.
Blurb – 6 feb 2019	82^.75 lei 38-44 zile
Bottom of the Hill Publishing – 31 aug 2011	86^.38 lei 6-8 săpt.
Alpha Editions – 11 apr 2022	87^.32 lei 6-8 săpt.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – 30 noi 2015	91^.34 lei 6-8 săpt.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –	97^.27 lei 6-8 săpt.
COSIMO CLASSICS – 30 noi 2005	104^.40 lei 6-8 săpt.
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Echo Library – 30 apr 2006	172^.92 lei 38-44 zile
Hardback (3)	68^.52 lei 3-5 săpt.	+10^.83 lei 4-10 zile
Mint Editions – 27 iul 2021	68^.52 lei 3-5 săpt.	+10^.83 lei 4-10 zile
Outlook Verlag – 6 sep 2022	373^.19 lei 17-23 zile	+35^.14 lei 4-10 zile
1st World Library –	175^.26 lei 6-8 săpt.

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Express

Paperback (26)

42^.78 lei 6-8 săpt.

Mint Editions – mar 2021

44^.31 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

45^.18 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

47^.64 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

51^.36 lei 3-5 săpt.

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55^.60 lei 3-5 săpt.

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58^.33 lei 3-5 săpt.

–

61^.30 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

64^.50 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

65^.56 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

75^.34 lei 3-5 săpt.

–

83^.29 lei 3-5 săpt.

–

85^.26 lei 3-5 săpt.

–

88^.62 lei 3-5 săpt.

BISON BOOKS – 29 feb 2000

96^.09 lei 3-5 săpt.

+27^.94 lei 4-10 zile

–

42^.78 lei 6-8 săpt.

Lector House – 21 iun 2019

77^.53 lei 6-8 săpt.

Waking Lion Press – 29 iul 2008

80^.41 lei 6-8 săpt.

1st World Library –

81^.10 lei 6-8 săpt.

Blurb – 6 feb 2019

82^.75 lei 38-44 zile

Bottom of the Hill Publishing – 31 aug 2011

86^.38 lei 6-8 săpt.

Alpha Editions – 11 apr 2022

87^.32 lei 6-8 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – 30 noi 2015

91^.34 lei 6-8 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

97^.27 lei 6-8 săpt.

COSIMO CLASSICS – 30 noi 2005

104^.40 lei 6-8 săpt.

Book Jungle – 17 apr 2008

110^.24 lei 6-8 săpt.

Echo Library – 30 apr 2006

172^.92 lei 38-44 zile

Hardback (3)

68^.52 lei 3-5 săpt.

+10^.83 lei 4-10 zile

Mint Editions – 27 iul 2021

68^.52 lei 3-5 săpt.

+10^.83 lei 4-10 zile

Outlook Verlag – 6 sep 2022

373^.19 lei 17-23 zile

+35^.14 lei 4-10 zile

1st World Library –

175^.26 lei 6-8 săpt.

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...