The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

By Edgar Rice Burroughs

From the prolific author of The Tarzan Series, The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw is a comedic short story that highlights Edgar Rice Burroughs’ masterful skill for adventure-fantasy stories.

After a mechanical failure, an aviator and a cytogeneticist are forced to land in Serbia. They discover a caveman frozen into a glacier wall and decide to try and revive him. When their attempts succeed, they soon discover that the man is incredibly smart with unrivalled physical strength. Returning to America with the men, the caveman becomes a successful professional wrestler. It seems as though all his dreams are coming true when he meets an actress who bears a strong resemblance to the woman he loved during his lifetime over 50,000 years ago. But much has changed since the caveman’s life, and women no longer act in the way he would expect. Will he be able to adapt to twentieth-century life? Or will he be frozen in time forever?

One of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ few short stories, The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw was first published in 1937 and is a humorous science fiction tale that would make the perfect read for fans of the writer’s The Moon Trilogy (1926).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
• Release date: Dec 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781447499602

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is the creator of Tarzan, one of the most popular fictional characters of all time, and John Carter, hero of the Barsoom science fiction series. Burroughs was a prolific author, writing almost 70 books before his death in 1950, and was one of the first authors to popularize a character across multiple media, as he did with Tarzan’s appearance in comic strips, movies, and merchandise. Residing in Hawaii at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, Burroughs was drawn into the Second World War and became one of the oldest war correspondents at the time. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s popularity continues to be memorialized through the community of Tarzana, California, which is named after the ranch he owned in the area, and through the Burrough crater on Mars, which was named in his honour.

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THE

RESURRECTION

OF JIMBER-JAW

(Fantasy and Horror Classics)

By

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

First published in 1937

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Contents

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I 11

II 13

III 21

IV 29

V 33

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago in 1875. His father, a Civil War veteran, sent him to Michigan Military Academy in his youth, but in 1895 Burroughs failed the entrance exam for the US army, and was then discharged from the military altogether in 1897 having been diagnosed with a heart problem. Following this, Burroughs worked in a range of unrelated short-term jobs, such as railroad policeman, business partner, and miner. In 1911, having worked for seven years on menial wages, and having taken an interest in the pulp magazines of the day, Burroughs began to write fiction.

Only a year later, Burroughs' story 'Under the Moons of Mars' was serialized in All-Story Magazine, earning him $400 (approximately twenty times that by modern-day economic standards). This money enabled Burroughs to start writing full-time and in the same year (1912), he published his successful and most well-known work—Tarzan of the Apes. Tarzan was a national sensation, and Burroughs showed an entrepreneurial streak when he exploited it in a range of different ways, from comics to movies to merchandise. By 1923, Burroughs had founded his own company – Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. – and printed his own books throughout the rest of his life.

During World War II, as a resident of Hawaii at the time of the Pearl Harbour attack, Burroughs became one of the oldest war correspondents in the US. After the war, Burroughs moved back to California, where he eventually died of a heart attack, leaving behind more than sixty novels. The figure of Tarzan remains immensely popular,