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7 Best Short Stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 33,35 MB

Release : 2019-01-16

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 8577770338

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Edgar Rice Burroughs only entered The Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2003 - more than 50 years after his death - but at this point he had a place of honor in the hearts and minds of science fiction, adventure and fantasy lovers. Its iconic characters, such as Tarzan and John Carter, became icons of pop culture and influenced all who came after. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: Tarzan's First Love A Jungle Joke Tarzan Rescues the Moon John Carter and the Giant Of Mars The Ancient Dead Beyond Thirty Skeleton Men of Jupiter



Robert Ludlum's The Lazarus Vendetta

Author : Robert Ludlum

Publisher : Hachette UK

Page : 340 pages

File Size : 32,67 MB

Release : 2010-02-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1409122069

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A thrilling Covert-One novel, from the world's No. 1 bestselling international author. In the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics, a once grassroots anti-globalisation movement has been slowly taken over by an underground radical anti-technology group fronted by a mysterious figure known only as Lazarus. All attempts to infiltrate the group have failed, and the intelligence agents involved have disappeared without trace. Now Lazarus is preparing to make his boldest move yet. Lt Col. Jon Smith is activated by Covert-One to bring his skills to bear in uncovering the truth behind the terrorists. For, unbeknown to the world at large, the Lazarus Movement is on the brink of setting in motion a deadly scheme that will risk the lives of billions and for ever change the nature of the world.



Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 1

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 5998 pages

File Size : 37,52 MB

Release : 2019-02-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 8577770699

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This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - H.P. Lovecraft, - Edgar Allan Poe, - Arthur Conan Doyle, - Katherine Mansfield, - Jack London, - Guy de Maupassant, - Virginia Woolf, F. - Scott Fitzgerald, - Edith Wharton, - Stephen Crane, - Susan Glaspell, - Kate Chopin, - Laura E. Richards, - Alice Dunbar-Nelson, - Louisa May Alcott, - Hans Christian Andersen, - Charles Dickens, - Nathaniel Hawthorne, - Henry James, - Mark Twain, - Charlotte Perkins, - Elizabeth Gaskell, - Herman Melville, - James Joyce, - Leo Tolstoy, - Nikolai Gogol, - Anton Chekhov, - Fyodor Dostoevsky, - Maxim Gorky, - Leonid Andreyev, - Ivan Turgenev, - Joseph Conrad, - Aleksander Pushkin, - Robert Louis Stevenson, - Robert E. Howard, - G. K. Chesterton, - Edgar Wallace, - Arthur Machen, - Ambrose Bierce, - Talbot Mundy, - Abraham Merritt, - Zane Grey, - Edgar Rice Burroughs, - Oscar Wilde, - Rudyard Kipling, - E.T.A. Hoffman, - Bram Stoker, - H.G. Wells, - Franz Kafta - Washington Irving.



I Am a Barbarian

Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs

Publisher :

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 49,90 MB

Release : 1967

Category : Rome

ISBN :

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The decadent era of the Caesers as seen through the eyes of the barbarian slave, Brittanicus.



Tarzan and the lost empire

Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs

Publisher : Good Press

Page : 189 pages

File Size : 50,15 MB

Release : 2023-07-10

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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"Tarzan and the lost empire" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.



Escape on Venus

Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs

Publisher : Jovian Press

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 31,26 MB

Release : 2017-12-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1537803557

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Escape on Venus is the fourth book in the Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series") by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It consists of four interconnected stories published in Fantasic Adventures between 1941 and 1942: "Slaves of the Fishmen," "Goddess of Fire," "The Living Dead," and "War on Venus."



7 best short stories by Otis Adelbert Kline

Author : Otis Adelbert Kline

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 190 pages

File Size : 10,51 MB

Release : 2020-05-16

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 3968588754

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Otis Adelbert Kline was a songwriter, an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E. Hoffmann Price. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment: - The Corpse on the Third Slab. - The Man from the Moon. - The Cup of Blood. - Mignight Madness. - The Malignant Entity. - The Bird-People. - The Thing of a Thousand Shapes.



7 best short stories by Ellis Parker Butler

Author : Ellis Parker Butler

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 102 pages

File Size : 40,21 MB

Release : 2020-05-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 3967249956

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Ellis Parker Butler was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays and is most famous for his short story "Pigs Is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating exponentially. His most famous character was Philo Gubb. Despite the enormous volume of his work, Butler was, for most of his life, only a part-time author. He worked full-time as a banker and was very active in his local community. A founding member of both the Dutch Treat Club and the Authors League of America, Butler was an always-present force in the New York City literary scene. In this book you will find seven short stories specially selected by the critic August Nemo: - Pigs is Pigs - The Hard-boiled Egg - Philo Gubb's Greatest Case - Solander's Radio Tomb - The Thin Santa Claus - Dey Ain't No Ghosts - The Man Who Did Not Go to Heaven on Tuesday



Tarzan and the Castaways

Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs

Publisher : eStar Books

Page : 584 pages

File Size : 45,83 MB

Release : 2013-06-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1612106587

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Tarzan becomes stranded on an island inhabited by the members of the ancient Mayan Civilization…



7 Best Short Stories by Francis Stevens

Author : Francis Stevens

Publisher : Tacet Books

Page : 455 pages

File Size : 26,36 MB

Release : 2019-10-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 857777550X

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Gertrude Barrows Bennett, known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction. Bennett wrote a number of fantasies and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy". ] The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment: - Behind the Curtain. - Unseen — Unfeared. - Elf Trap. - Serapion. - Friend Island. - Citadel of Fear. - Nightmare!