Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author best known for creating Tarzan, the jungle-raised hero, and John Carter of Mars.
His pulp adventure novels from the early twentieth century established templates for science fiction and fantasy that still influence popular culture.
Burroughs invented the modern jungle adventure with stories of wild men, lost civilizations, and planetary romance.
Writer of prose narratives
- storytellerOne who recounts tales
- writerCreator of texts
- creatorOne who produces something
- TarzanaSan Fernando Valley district
prolific · science fiction · fantasy · adventure · worldbuilding · imagination · serialized · influential
Hypothetical evolutionary intermediate
- JaneFemale given name
- jungleDense tropical forest
- AfricaSecond-largest continent
- vinesClimbing, trailing plants
feral · Lord · tree house · savage · elephant · lion · great apes · yell
Personal psychological realm
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- dinosaursExtinct prehistoric reptiles
- lost worldsDisappeared places or eras
- subterraneanBeneath earth's surface
Continuing episodic stories
- cliffhangerSuspenseful unresolved ending
- dime novelsCheap sensational 19th-century fiction
- escapismHabitual mental retreat
- genre fictionConventional, plot-driven popular books
sensationalism · melodrama · paperbacks · adventure tales · fantastical · thrilling · penny dreadfuls · newsstand
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
- storytellerOne who recounts tales
- writerCreator of texts
- creatorOne who produces something
Tarzana · prolific · science fiction · fantasy · adventure · worldbuilding · imagination · serialized · influential · pseudonym
ape-man
Hypothetical evolutionary intermediate
vines · feral · Lord · tree house · savage · elephant · lion · great apes · yell · loincloth
inner world
Personal psychological realm
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- dinosaursExtinct prehistoric reptiles
- lost worldsDisappeared places or eras
subterranean · pterodactyls · savage · primitive · underground
serials
Continuing episodic stories
- cliffhangerSuspenseful unresolved ending
- dime novelsCheap sensational 19th-century fiction
- escapismHabitual mental retreat
genre fiction · sensationalism · melodrama · paperbacks · adventure tales · fantastical · thrilling · penny dreadfuls · newsstand · periodicals
John Carter
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