"This doorstopper collection of vintage stories featuring larger-than-life heroes in exotic locales comes just in time for beach reading, and even if you dont finish reading all of it, you can use it for shade. Authors include classic yarn spinners like Rudyard Kipling, O. Henry, H. G. Wells, Jack London, and Saki as well as such more scenery-chewing pulpsters as H. Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, and Sax Rohmer. The stories are sorted into 11 indicatively titled chapters, such as Sword & Sorcery, Man vs. Nature, Megalomania Rules, Future Shock (which includes the ultimate take on cookbooks, Damon Knights To Serve Man), I Spy, and the politically incorrect Yellow Peril. This nostalgic tome is chock-full of swashbuckling, vine-swinging, sword-fighting, and gun-slinging favorites of the past, including the Scarlet Pimpernel, Tarzan, Hopalong Cassidy, Conan the Barbarian, the Cisco Kid, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, and even King Kong. Recommended for all popular fiction collections, not least because of its browsability." (BookList) Check Our Catalog
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