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2Edgar Rice "Ned" Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author of numerous [[PulpMagazine pulp fiction]] heroic adventures. The most famous are ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'', set in DarkestAfrica, and ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'', but other lands are used: jungles and islands throughout the world, [[PlanetaryRomance Venus]] in the ''Literature/{{Amtor}}'' series, and [[BeneathTheEarth the hollow center of the earth]] ''Literature/{{Pellucidar}}'', one of several literary examples of the HollowWorld.
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4TropeMaker for many aspects of PlanetaryRomance. An influence on SwordAndSorcery, despite the SF veneer to all the marvels. Lots of books [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Edgar_Rice_Burroughs here.]]
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6He is the great-grand-uncle of filmmaker Creator/WesAnderson.
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8Most definitely not to be confused with Creator/WilliamSBurroughs.[[note]] Unless you're Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer, who wrote a Burroughs+Burroughs pastiche.[[/note]]
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10!!Works by Edgar Rice Burroughs with their own trope pages include:
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12* ''Literature/{{Amtor}}'' series
13* ''Literature/BeyondThirty''
14* ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' series
15* ''Literature/TheLandThatTimeForgot'' series
16* ''Literature/TheMadKing''
17* ''Literature/TheMonsterMen''
18* ''Literature/TheMoonMaid'' series
19* ''Literature/{{Pellucidar}}'' series
20* ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' series
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22!!Tropes featured in his other works:
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24* ActionGirl: His heroines never lack pluck, and while not the fighter the hero is, they often can weigh in on a fray.
25* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: Averted in ''The Eternal Lover'' (aka ''The Eternal Savage''); Nu and his people live in caves, but they appear to be modern humans.
26* BirthmarkOfDestiny: 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 UsefulNotes/HenryTheThird.
27* BlueBlood: Constantly. A hero, or heroine, not of Royal Blood is at least this.
28* CanNotSpitItOut: All over the place.
29* CanonWelding:
30** Jason Gridley is introduced in ''[[{{Literature/Pellucidar}} Tanar of Pellucidar]]'', meets Literature/{{Tarzan}} in ''Tarzan at the Earth's Core'', appears in ''[[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars A Fighting Man of Mars]]'', and is mentioned in ''Literature/PiratesOfVenus''.
31** The technology for the Moon mission from ''Literature/TheMoonMaid'' was [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Barsoomian]] in origin.
32** Tarzan is a supporting character in ''The Eternal Lover'', whose central character is the sister of the hero of ''Literature/TheMadKing''; thereby bringing those otherwise non-series novels into the fold.
33* ContemporaryCaveman:
34** The novel ''The Eternal Lover'' (a.k.a. ''The Eternal Savage'' and ''Sweetheart Primeval''). 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.
35** The short story "The Resurrection of Jimber Jaw" features an unfrozen caveman with politically incorrect views.
36* ContrivedCoincidence: His plots are stuffed with them.
37* CultureClash: An ingredient of a big percentage of Burroughs' books, especially in the LostWorld and PlanetaryRomance stories.
38* DirtyCoward: More than one of his villains.
39* DisneyOwnsThisTrope: He was one of the first authors to incorporate, which is why the name "Tarzan" and "John Carter" are still trademarked even though most of the books are now in the public domain.
40* FrazettaMan: Burroughs' books are full of these guys. Appropriately, Frank Frazetta himself did a lot of his covers.
41* LoinCloth: The official dress code in many a Burroughs novel.
42* LoveAtFirstSight: Common method of choosing a mate for a Burroughs hero.
43* LoveHurts: Common ''result'' of choosing a mate for a Burroughs hero.
44* ObliviousToLove: Your typical Edgar Rice Burroughs hero needs to be hit over the head with a club, several times, before he realizes that he has fallen in love with the heroine.
45* OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList: Happens to the Prime Minister in ''Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M''.
46* RagsToRoyalty: The title character of ''The Cave Girl'' was a ship-wrecked child of Spanish nobility.
47* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: The Prime Minister in ''Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M''.
48* RoyalBrat: The Leper King Lodivarman in ''The Land of Hidden Men''.
49* TheSocialDarwinist: In both the ''Tarzan'' series and his lesser-known sci fi ''Venus'' series Burroughs depicted what we might call "eugenics utopias", societies that strictly regulated heredity. This ranged from rewarding "fit" births, forced sterilization and even ''killing'' people deemed unfit. In the ''Tarzan'' example, this has gone on for over 2,000 years, with the result that no crime exists. Burroughs firmly believed that all criminal behavior was caused by hereditary traits, and strongly supported eugenics, writing a nonfiction essay called "I See A New Race" which made clear this [[AuthorTract reflected his own views]].
50* StrictlyFormula: Burroughs stuck, most of the time, to a formula plot. His occasional departures were often less successful.
51* WhipSword: The spear-whips in ''Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M''.

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