The Eternal Savage by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Dirty Coward: More than one of his villains.Culture Clash: An ingredient of a big percentage of Burroughs' books, especially in the Lost World and Planetary Romance stories.Contrived Coincidence: His plots are stuffed with them.The short story 'The Resurrection of Jimber Jaw' features an unfrozen caveman with politically incorrect views.A cliff-dwelling warrior of 100,000 years ago, Nu, is magically transported to the present, falls in love with Victoria Custer of Beatrice, Nebraska, the reincarnation of his lost lover Nat-ul, and the two are transported back to the Stone Age. The Eternal Savage and Sweetheart Primeval). Tarzan is a supporting character in The Eternal Lover, whose central character is the sister of the hero of The Mad King thereby bringing those otherwise non-series novels into the fold.The technology for the Moon mission from The Moon Maid was Barsoomian in origin.

Jason Gridley is introduced in Tanar of Pellucidar, meets Tarzan in Tarzan at the Earth's Core, appears in A Fighting Man of Mars, and is mentioned in Pirates of Venus.

Cannot Spit It Out: All over the place.

A hero, or heroine, not of Royal Blood is at least this.

Birthmark of Destiny: In The Outlaw of Torn, Norman of Torn has a lily-shaped birthmark on his right breast, which eventually proves that he's Prince Richard, lost heir to Henry The Third.

All Cavemen Were Neanderthals: Averted in The Eternal Lover (aka The Eternal Savage) Nu and his people live in caves, but they appear to be modern humans.

Action Girl: His heroines never lack pluck, and while not the fighter the hero is, they often can weigh in on a fray.

Works by Edgar Rice Burroughs with their own trope pages include: note Unless you're Philip José Farmer, who wrote a Burroughs+Burroughs pastiche. Most definitely not to be confused with William S.

He is the great-grand-uncle of filmmaker Wes Anderson. An influence on Sword and Sorcery, despite the SF veneer to all the marvels. Trope Maker for many aspects of Planetary Romance. The most famous are Tarzan, set in Darkest Africa, and John Carter of Mars, but other lands are used: jungles and islands throughout the world, Venus in the Amtor series, and the hollow center of the earth Pellucidar, one of several literary examples of the Hollow World.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (Septem– March 19, 1950) was an American author of numerous pulp fiction heroic adventures.

The Eternal Savage by Edgar Rice Burroughs