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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Activity (s) Novelist , short story
Birth 1September 1875
Chicago , Illinois , Flag: United States United States
Deaths 19 March 1950 (74 years)
Encino , California , Flag: United States United States
Writing language U.S. English
Genre (s) Adventure , science fiction , detective novels
Major works

Edgar Rice Burroughs, born in Chicago on 1September 1875 and died in Encino on 19 March 1950 , is a novelist American , creator of , the Ape Man, a character of fiction's best-known world. It is also the author of several series of science fiction and mystery novels.

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The most frequent criticisms against the works of Burroughs are state of the highly repetitive nature of his stories (a great hero by saving his wife / his fiance, herself perfection made woman, kidnapped by a " wicked "prototypical ). However, the success of his novels is also due to his unquestionable imagination.

Whether with the adventures of Tarzan , those of John Carter of Mars , the stories of Venus , or those of a civilization at the heart of our Earth (the cycle of Pellucidar ), Edgar Rice Burroughs has inspired many writers science-fiction literature and fantasy of the twentieth century.

Series and celebrated cycles

Western Novels

  • The Apache daemon (Apache Devil (1933)) ( Neo (1986))

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