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One of Edmund's descendants was Mary Rice, who married ERB's grandfather, Abner Tyler Burroughs, so ERB was named for her. He mentions this in Escape On Venus. He often used family names for characters in his books, such as “Abner Perry” and “Bowen J. Tyler, Jr.” His motto for John Carter of Mars was “I still live,” and of the 84 Rice Family members mentioned in the Rice genealogy, 74 lived to be over 90, five of them over 100 years of age. ERB was justly proud of this record. |
The appendices include letters from readers of All Story magazine, raving about the new story. There are also another 20 pages on Stanley's In Darkest Africa, on Emerson's Self-Reliance, on Feral children, plus explanatory notes and a chronology of ERB's life. This Oxford World Classic is sold both in paperback ($8.95) and hardback ($14.95, not yet seen) and worth adding to your collection. |
The story is printed with marginal spaces on each page for students to write down their notes, very reminiscent of the 1963 edition from Oxford University Press which was the first of their “Teaching Editions” with questions at the end of each chapter for students to answer. More and more current editions are exploring the backgrounds for the Burroughs stories, which is one more indication of the author’s arrival on the classical side of the fence. ... “Ye Editor”
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Published monthly for the Burroughs Bibliophiles as a supplement to The Burroughs Bulletin. Edited by George T. McWhorter, The Edgar Rice Burroughs Memorial Collection, William F. Ekstrom Library, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292. © Copyright 2010, The Burroughs Bibliophiles. E-mail: george.mcwhorter@louisville.edu. Telephone: (502) 852-8729. |
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