Edgar Rice Burroughs
25 books by Edgar Rice Burroughs to read free, each with its best passages and lines, and the best quotes from all of them below.
Where to start
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Tarzan of the Apes
An orphan is raised by apes in Africa and goes on various adventures.
86,305 words, about 6 hours
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A Princess of Mars
An adventurer finds himself battling alien civilizations on the strange surface of Mars.
67,817 words, about 5 hours
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The Gods of Mars
John Carter returns to Mars to try and determine the fate of his lost love Dejah Thoris.
83,233 words, about 6 hours
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The Return of Tarzan
Tarzan attempts to leave behind life in the jungle but rapidly discovers that life among humans contains just as many dangers.
89,700 words, about 6 hours
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The Warlord of Mars
John Carter, an Earth-man transported to Mars, must rescue his beloved princess from imprisonment in the Martian Temple of the Sun.
57,788 words, about 4 hours
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Pellucidar
An adventurer returns to the hollow interior of the Earth in search of his lost love.
57,918 words, about 4 hours
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Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Tarzan adopts a lion cub while he battles a team of thieves seeking the treasures of the lost city of Opar.
80,859 words, about 6 hours
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The Beasts of Tarzan
An old enemy kidnaps Tarzan’s family, and Tarzan must rescue them with the help of his panther and ape friends.
64,080 words, about 4 hours
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The Chessmen of Mars
Tara, Princess of Helium and daughter of John Carter, finds life-threatening adventure in thrilling far-off regions of Barsoom.
88,747 words, about 6 hours
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Thuvia, Maid of Mars
When the beautiful Princess Thuvia of Ptarth is kidnapped, suspicion falls on John Carter’s son Carthoris, who sets out to rescue the woman he loves.
46,097 words, about 3 hours
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Jungle Tales of Tarzan
A collection of short stories about Tarzan growing up in the jungle.
74,737 words, about 5 hours
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Pirates of Venus
A space traveler accidentally finds himself on Venus and must learn the local customs to survive.
61,399 words, about 4 hours
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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
After seeking the riches of Opar, Tarzan must save his wife from captivity.
66,503 words, about 5 hours
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Tarzan the Untamed
Tarzan embarks on a perilous journey through war-torn Africa to exact revenge against those who wronged him.
109,295 words, about 8 hours
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The Land That Time Forgot
Stranded U-boat survivors and their rescuers contend with dangerous beasts and prehistoric people in a strange lost world.
111,659 words, about 8 hours
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The Master Mind of Mars
A new hero from Earth reaches Mars and battles a merchant of purloined youth.
54,746 words, about 4 hours
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At the Earth’s Core
Two explorers burrow deep into the planet’s crust and emerge in a savage land inside a hollow Earth, where they have many adventures.
50,120 words, about 4 hours
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Beyond Thirty
A young naval officer finds himself in a forbidden part of the world after storms waylay his ship.
38,461 words, about 3 hours
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Tarzan and the Ant Men
The legendary lord of the jungle Tarzan finds himself trapped in an unfamiliar land inhabited by a tiny people.
78,528 words, about 6 hours
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Tarzan the Terrible
Tarzan seeks to rescue his kidnapped wife from a lost city hidden in a prehistoric jungle.
94,088 words, about 7 hours
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Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
Journeys, times, and cultures collide as two expeditions seek the riches of known and fabeled lands.
70,494 words, about 5 hours
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The Moon Maid
A young man travels to the moon with a group of companions and discovers that it’s inhabited; in subsequent centuries, reincarnations of the same man deal with an invasion of the Earth by the malevolent inhabitants of the Moon.
125,384 words, about 9 hours
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The Mucker
A street tough undergoes a transformation as he navigates the dangerous worlds of Chicago’s slums, a South Pacific island, and the wilds of Mexico.
123,254 words, about 9 hours
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The Outlaw of Torn
A powerful knight terrorizes the aristocracy and protects the poor in 13th century England.
65,999 words, about 5 hours
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The Son of Tarzan
Upon discovering his father’s past life in the jungles of Africa, Tarzan’s son sets out to follow in his footsteps.
95,137 words, about 7 hours
Edgar Rice Burroughs quotes
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.
I am a very old man; how old I do not know.
“It was ever your way, John Carter, to think last of your own life,” he said; “but still more your way to command the lives and actions of others, even to the greatest of Jeddaks who rule upon Barsoom.”
In the jungle one would scarcely stand supinely aside while another took his mate. It is a silly world, an idiotic world, and Tarzan of the Apes was a fool to renounce the freedom and the happiness of his jungle to come into it.
Had I been a woman I should have wept.
I was going up for a fur coat. He was coming down for breakfast. Each realized that here was the very thing he sought.
“Lord Greystoke, foster mother to the son of Numa,” laughed Jane.
The ship was moving! Where to and to what fate was it carrying him?
“Why attempt to explain the inexplicable?”
I can see her shrug her shapely shoulders in reply as she voices the age-old, universal answer of the woman: Because!
Teeka, stretched at luxurious ease in the shade of the tropical forest, presented, unquestionably, a most alluring picture of young, feminine loveliness.
“If a female figure in a white shroud enters your bedchamber at midnight on the thirteenth day of this month, answer this letter; otherwise, do not.”
It were easier to question a man first and kill him afterward, than kill him first and then question him.
It was no member of the House of Lords who swung swiftly and grimly through the tangled forest or trod with untiring muscles the wide stretches of open plain—it was a great he ape filled with a single purpose that excluded all thoughts of fatigue or danger.
Greenland! As a descriptive appellation, it is a sorry joke—but my story has nothing to do with Greenland, nothing to do with me; so I shall get through with the one and the other as rapidly as possible.
Such dreams! Always of Mars, and during my waking hours at night my eyes always sought out the Red Planet when he was above the horizon and clung there seeking a solution of the seemingly unfathomable riddle he has presented to the Earthman for ages.
In the first place please bear in mind that I do not expect you to believe this story.
The wildest beast that roams our waste places lairs in the frozen north or the frozen south within a government reserve, where the curious may view him and feed him bread crusts from the hand with perfect impunity.
Instead he let drop mysterious suggestions that he was, indeed, none other than the river devil.
Silent as the shadows through which he moved, the great beast slunk through the midnight jungle, his yellow-green eyes round and staring, his sinewy tail undulating behind him, his head lowered and flattened, and every muscle vibrant to the thrill of the hunt.
Reading paths
- Science fiction beginnings Robots, time travel, Martians and dystopia: every big idea, in its first book.