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Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Burroughs entry in our ebook listing (http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-a-m.html#burroughs) has links to all the "Tarzan" stories, as well as all the "Planets" stories, including "Barsoom", "Venus", "Moon", and "Pellucidar". There are also a few "westerns" and some other miscellaneous titles.
A biography and a bibliography of Burroughs' writing may be found at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Rice_Burroughs).
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"We talked of pipe-clay regulation caps--
Long twenty-fours--short culverins and mortars--
Condemn'd the 'Horse Guards' for a set of raps,
And cursed our fate at being in such quarters.
Some smoked, some sighed, and some were heard to snore;
Some wished themselves five fathoms 'neat the Solway;
And some did pray--who never prayed before--
That they might get the 'route' for Cork or Galway."
(From "The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer")
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-- OCTOBER POSTINGS -- Oct 2007 Collected Stories, Rafael Sabatini [070112xx.xxx] 1565A http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701121.txt or .zip Oct 2007 Almuric, Robert Ervin Howard [070111xx.xxx] 1564A http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701111.txt or zip http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701111h.html Oct 2007 War Birds, Anonymous [070110xx.xxx] 1563A http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701101.txt or .zip
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