| The Monster Men: Illustrated and unabridged Contributor(s): Anderson, Taylor (Editor), Burroughs, Edgar Rice (Author) |
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ISBN: 1979133654 ISBN-13: 9781979133654 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.64 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Lexile Measure: 1390 |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.48 lbs) 156 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Monster Men is a 1913 science fiction novel written by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs under the working title "Number Thirteen". It first appeared in print under the title of "A Man Without a Soul" in the November, 1913 issue of All-Story Magazine, and was first published in book form in hardcover by A. C. McClurg in March, 1929 under the present title. It has been reissued a number of times since by various publishers. The first paperback edition was issued by Ace Books in February 1963. Cornell University professor Arthur Maxon, who has been experimenting in the creation of artificial life, travels with his daughter Virginia to one of the remote Pamarung Islands in the East Indies to pursue his project. Their departure is noted with interest by a young man, Townsend J. Harper, Jr., who is quite taken with Virginia and determines to find out where they are going. In Singapore, Maxon commissions Dr. Carl von Horn to take them the remainder of the way to their destination in his yacht the Ithaca, and then to assist him in his experiments. On the island the group fights off a pirate attack and builds a fort. |