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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American adventure writer whose Tarzan stories created a folk hero known around the world. His novels sold more than 100 million copies in 56 languages, making him one of the most...
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Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875–1950) US author of adventure novels. A prolific writer, he is best known as the creator of the apeman Tarzan, who featured in a series of books, beginning with Tarzan of the Apes (1912).
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Broadhurst, George Howells
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...his own plays to be seen there being The Crimson Alibi (1919). His later productions included an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes (1921).
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Herbert Jr., Frank
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...him as a genius type who knew everything. Herbert liked adventure stories and read science fiction classics by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H.G. Wells when he was very young. When Herbert was eight, he announced to his family that he wanted to...
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Johnny Weissmuller
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...extra jungle footage, and not wanting to waste it, decided to use it to make a film based on the book Tarzan, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, about a man who had been abandoned in the jungle during his infancy and then raised by apes. According to Gabe...
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Futurology
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...the time dimension anchored in classical SF such as the century-old works of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Arguably, the first two of these dimensions might qualify as futurology, if the authors built upon a solid...
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Mars
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells and the tales of John Carter of “ Barsoom ” (Mars) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Mars also inspired rocket developers such as Robert H. Goddard, and the planet was finally reached successfully...
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wolf-child
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...these include bears, sheep, pigs, cattle, and even leopards. Among fictional accounts, the most famous are Edgar Rice Burroughs' stories of Tarzan , which generated a series of films beginning with Tarzan of the Apes (1918). For sixteen...
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Tarzan
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Tarzan, hero of juvenile adventure stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs .
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Golding, William
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...favorite authors included H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946), Jules Verne (1828 – 1905), and Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 – 1950). Since the age of seven, Golding had been writing stories, and at the age of twelve...
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