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Lord y Lady Greystoke, que está embarazada, son abandonados por la tripulación amotinada de su barco, en la zona más salvaje de la costa Africana. Cuando el matromonio muere a manos de los grandes simios, su hijo recién nacido, atrae con su llanto a Kala, la gran mona que acaba de perder a su cría y que adopta al bebé humano como si fuera propio. Tarzán crece entre los grandes monos y se considera uno más de ellos, pero acaba dándose cuenta de que hay algo en el que es diferente.

Poco tiempo después de que Tarzán acepte el título de Lord Greystoke que por su nacimiento legítimamente le correspondía, se casa con Jane Porter. Pero en el pasado Tarzán se ha hecho enemigos que no le olvidan y que han prometido venganza. Un día recibe una llamada anónima en la que le dicen que han secuestrado a su pequeño hijo Jack.

Tras vivir durante un tiempo en la sociedad civilizada, Tarzán no puede soportarla más y decide regresar a la selva que es el único tipo de sociedad que le parece natural. Allí es feliz. Durante su ausencia se han generado rumores sobre la existencia de una fantástica ciudad de oro llamada Opar, en la que viven mujeres bellísimas bajo el mando de una sacerdotisa suprema que es el brazo ejecutor de un dios cruel y sanguinario.

John Clayton Lord Greystoke y Lady Alice Rutherford su esposa, han sido abandonados en la costa occidental de África, allí nació su pequeño hijo, el cual fue adoptado por la Kala la mona luego de que Lady Alice muriera y John Clayton fuera asesinado por el jefe de una tribu de gorilas.

The classic tale is one of an extraordinary boy coming to manhood in a jungle world where he must establish his own values and morals. The story has a touch of romance and is action packed from start to finish!

William Burroughs closed his classic novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called ‘Yage’, a drug that could be ‘the final fix’. In The Yage Letters, a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel, he journeys through South America, writing...

For our conversation is in heaven. With this single line, the apostle Paul defines the whole of the Christian life. In A Treatise of Conversing in Heaven and Walking with God, Jeremiah Burroughs unfolds the rich biblical truth that the Christian’s “conversation” – his manner of life...

Is your worship pleasing to God? In this piercing yet refreshing series of sermons, the beloved Puritan preacher Jeremiah Burroughs calls believers to a reverent, Scripture-based approach to worship. Originally delivered during the 1600s, preserved from his pulpit notes and now in updated, modern English, Gospel Worship is a sobering reminder that drawing near to God is no frivolous matter. How we worship reveals what we believe about the God we worship.

William Seward Burroughs (February 5, 1914 to August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced both underground and popular culture and literature. Much of Burroughs' work is highly experimental and features unreliable narrators.

Фантастико-приключенческий роман классика мирового жанра Эдгара Райса Берроуза, открывающий знаменитый цикл о Пеллюсидаре. Изобретатель Абнер Перри и молодой аристократ Дэвид Иннес отправляются под землю на уникальном стальном кроте-буре и пробивают земную кору, попадая в таинственный подземный мир Пеллюсидар. Здесь нет ночи, солнце вечно видит в зените, а на бескрайних просторах обитают доисторические монстры, птерозавры и разумная раса летающих ящеров — махаров, поработившая дикие человеческие племена.

In uncharted Caprona, a continent lost from the map of the earth, where time had stopped and all the primeval creatures of long-gone ages still prowled, Bowen Tyler was lost. To find Tyler, Tom Billings traveled across the world to Caprona, with all the weaponry the modern world afforded. A...

The story begins in the midst of World War I, in the middle of naval attacks between the armies of various nations. On a submarine that had been captured in the English Channel, the combatants from several countries fight for the ownership of the vessel. After a series of unfortunate circumstances, the submarine is sent off-course into the South Pacific and then is even further rerouted to Antarctica.

Paulvitch seeks revenge against Tarzan once again, this time by luring Lord Greystoke's rebellious son away from London. The great ape Akut and the son flee to the savage African jungle where Tarzan was reared and discover that the perils of the jungle are nothing compared to the evils of men.

A Princess of Mars was the first book by Edgar Rice Burroughs to feature the character John Carter. It led to an 11-book series featuring his adventures and became the basis for the 2012 movie. Carter is a war-weary former military captain during the Civil War who is inexplicably transported to Mars. He quickly (and reluctantly) becomes embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions among the inhabitants of the planet.

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a dazzling political novel Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American...

Tida como a obra mais importante de Burroughs, Almoço nu é uma mistura de delírios sádicos, homossexuais e paranoicos induzidos pelas viagens de heroína. Lançado em Paris em 1959, Almoço nu logo se tornou um dos romances mais importantes do século XX. Influência determinante na...

Marco cultural dos anos 1950, Junky descreve o périplo de um viciado em drogas pesadas. O livro entra agora para o time de clássicos malditos da coleção Má Companhia. Cotidiano modorrento, um atestado de dispensa do serviço militar e alguns trambiques. Assim o narrador de Junky descreve...

Third and final installment of Burrough's Caspak series takes on the adventures of Bradley and the other crew members of the U33 after Bowen J. Tyler Jr.'s disappearance from Fort Dinosaur in Book 1, The Land That Time Forgot. Bradley and his men fall prey to another humanesque species on Caspak, the terrible and terrifying Weiroo. 

Six complete audiobooks in one collection - both of Edgar Rice Burroughs' legendary adventure series, from the very beginning. On Mars, John Carter arrives on a dying red planet and finds himself stronger than any creature alive, thrown into a world of warring civilizations and ancient mysteries...

Two complete audiobooks for the price of one - and the beginning of one of science fiction's most imaginative series. John Carter is a Civil War veteran with nothing left to lose. He heads out West looking for gold and ends up somewhere considerably further from Virginia than he bargained for -...