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John Carter, Prince of Helium, has been imprisoned for a Martian year, his wife in another cell - alive or dead, he doesn't know. In this continuation of the saga of the amazing world of Barsoom, the love story of Carter and Dejah Thoris - the red-skinned, oviparous princess - unfolds. Like all the tales in the series, fantasy and adventure combine in a style as malleable as dreams, exotic and dangerous and unending.

This is the extraordinary story of John Carter, who returns to the Red Planet in search of his beloved, Dejah Thoris. John lands in the Valley Dor, which is populated by vicious plant men, and discovers the Lost Sea of Korus, guarded by the great white apes and horrifying lions of Barsoom. It is here that he finds the princess Thuvia, who is a captive of the Holy Therns, high priests who eat only human flesh slain by their plant men.

“The green warrior decided to close in and end the battle; just as he rushed me, a blinding light struck full in my eyes, so that I could not see Zad’s approach and could only leap blindly to one side to avoid his mighty blade...." Suddenly projected to Mars, John Carter finds himself the captive of the savage green men of Thark. With him is the lovely Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium. And between them and rescue lay a thousand miles of deadly enemies and unknown dangers.

The legendary Tarzan claims his birthright title as Lord Greystoke and starts a small family with Jane, now his wife. But just when things are going right, the evil Rokoff kidnaps Tarzan's infant son, Jack, luring Tarzan into a trap. After Rokoff exiles him on an island near the African coast, Tarzan uses his skills learned from the jungle to win the favor of various wild animals. Tarzan must enlist these creatures to help him track down Rokoff in order to save his family from certain demise.

In this second addition to Edgar Rice Burroughs' epic adventures of Tarzan, listeners will find the jungle man leaving America to visit old friends in Europe. Through spirals of action, disaster, and shipwreck, we find Tarzan and a group of travelers - including his first love, Jane; and his new archenemy, Rokoff - back in the jungle where he was raised. Encountering even more hardship in the harsh jungle, Tarzan again fights wild animals and savage tribes in the ultimate search for secret buried treasure.

This classic story encompasses the life of John Clayton, the son of English aristocrats, who is abandoned in the jungle as an infant after the untimely death of his parents. He is adopted by the caring ape Kala and is raised in her tribe of gorillas, led by the intimidating Kerchak. Growing up an outsider among his peers, Tarzan gradually earns the respect of his ape tribe through physical feats and his hunting abilities. This sparks jealously in Kerchak, which forces Tarzan into the fight of his life.

Il piccolo Lord Greystoke nasce nel luogo meno appropriato e nel momento più drammatico della vita dei suoi genitori. Il suo destino sembra segnato, ma Kala, una femmina di gorilla che ha perso da poco il suo cucciolo, lo adotta e lo alleva teneramente. Per lei e per tutta la tribù dei crudeli gorilla, quello strano essere senza peli è Tarzan.

Thuvia, Princess of Ptarth, is betrothed to Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol, in an arranged marriage. She spurns the advances of a suitor, Astok of Dusar, who then plots to abduct Thuvia and frame Carthoris, son of John Carter, for the crime, igniting a war between Kaol, Ptarth, and Helium.

Tara of Helium, daughter of John Carter, becomes lost in an unknown area of Mars when her single-seat flier is caught in a rare Martian hurricane. She is first captured by the bizarre and hideous Kaldanes, and then the brutal Manatorians, for whom she is the prize in a tournament of Martian chess, jetan, that is played by live game pieces, and to the death!

At the conclusion of The Gods of Mars, John Carter's wife and two other women were locked in a slowly rotating prison attached to the Temple of the Sun, each of whose hundreds of cells are only open to the outside world once every year. John Carter must discover the secret of the Temple of the Sun to rescue the Holy Thern's daughter Phaidor, who has been imprisoned with Dejah Thoris and another Barsoomian princess, Thuvia of Ptarth.

After a 10-year absence, John Carter returns to Barsoom. He finds himself among the Therns, a white-skinned race of self-proclaimed gods, who have for eons deceived the Barsoomians elsewhere that the pilgrimage to the Valley Dor is a journey to paradise when it is in fact a valley of death. This is book two of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series.

While fleeing from a band of Apache warriors, Civil War veteran John Carter hides in a sacred cave, where he is mysteriously transported to Mars. Now endowed with superhuman abilities due to the low Martian gravity, he becomes embroiled in a conflict between the six-limbed Green Martians and humanoid Red Martians and meets the beautiful Dejah Thoris. This is book one of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series.

A drilling machine experiment reveals Pellucidar, a hidden world 500 miles under the Earth's surface. A world with eternal daylight, living dinosaurs, and stone-age humans, ruled by an advanced reptilian race.

David Innes and his captive, a member of the reptilian Mahar master race of the interior world of Pellucidar, return from the surface world in the Iron Mole invented by his friend and companion in adventure, Abner Perry.

Continuano, dopo il primo audiolibro del ciclo, "Pirati su Venere", le avventure di Carson Napier sul pianeta Venere. Un intenso susseguirsi di incontri e scontri con animali feroci e uomini più o meno evoluti ma altrettanto pericolosi e crudeli. Insieme a Duare, la bellissima principessa, il nostro eroe cercherà di ritrovare la strada verso il regno di Vepaja, tra mille difficoltà e pericoli. Precursore dei mondi distopici e delle saghe fantastiche, Burroughs si conferma un grande visionario, capace di muoversi a suo agio tra le creature mostruose che verranno riprese dai posteri.

Questo primo romanzo del "Ciclo di Venere", del 1934, opera meno famosa dell'autore di Tarzan si inserisce nel filone della costruzione di un mondo utopico/distopico, filone iniziato da H. G. Wells nella Macchina del Tempo nel 1902. In questo caso la società abita su Venere, pianeta che, a causa della fitta coltre di nubi, è stato sempre sconosciuto ai vari astronomi e scienziati, e ipotizzato come inadatto alla vita. Lo stesso autore ha scritto altri cicli di romanzi di fantascienza, come il "ciclo di Pellucidar" e il "ciclo di Marte".

La vita di Tarzan, tornato nella civiltà, non si può dire noiosa. Le sue avventure continuano a ritmo serrato: Parigi, il deserto, e, tornato infine nella sua giungla nativa, alla scoperta di una misteriosa città fondata da Atlantidei. Agente del servizio segreto, re di indigeni africani, e poi di nuovo re delle scimmie, sarà portato più volte a confrontare la vita primitiva con la vita degli uomini, senza decidersi nella sua scelta. Ma l'amore vincerà, come sempre accade, e, finalmente, potrà dire di nuovo. "Io Tarzan, tu Jane."

Primo audiolibro della fortunatissima serie di romanzi di "Tarzan", questo romanzo, pubblicato nel 1914, divenne presto un best-seller mondiale. Il successo divenne tale che le avventure di Tarzan si snodarono per ben ventotto libri, tradotto in più di cinquanta linque, e il personaggio divenne fonte di ispirazione di almeno trenta film, telefilm e cartoni animati. Il racconto non è però solo un audiolibro di avventure e offre spunti di riflessione su temi come la diversità, i pregiudizi, il conflitto tra istinto e ragione, tra eredità ed educazione.

Con questo volume continuano i romanzi ambientati su Amtor I Pirati di Venere e Perduti su Venere. Nuove avventure e imprese pericolose aspettano Carson Napier. Proprio quando l'amore tra lui e la bellissima Duare sembra poter trionfare, ecco che nuovi inattesi e crudeli tiri della sorte separano i due. Tra tradimenti e gesta eroiche, il nostro eroe si troverà a combattere contro Mephis e i suoi fanatici seguaci, parodia per nulla velata del nazismo e dei totalitarismi in genere. Per gli amanti dell'avventura, questo romanzo non sarà avaro di colpi di scena.

Join in on one of the world’s most beloved jungle adventures in The Tarzan Collection. This collection includes the first three books of Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan novels: Tarzan of the Apes, The Return of Tarzan, and The Beasts of Tarzan. All three novels follow stages of Tarzan’s life, from his childhood among the apes to his adulthood adjusting to a new life and adventures among civilized society.