Edgar Rice Burroughs 4 hr 41 min read

Pampered, cowardly Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones is shipwrecked alone on a savage tropical shore, and, to win the wild cave girl Nadara, must transform himself into a fearless primitive hero.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1925 novel is a rousing lost-world adventure-romance. Fast, vivid, thrilling. Read it for classic Burroughs, a timid weakling's remaking into a mighty jungle hero for the love of a beautiful cave-girl, in a stirring tale of savagery, courage, and romance from the creator of Tarzan and John Carter.

In its time

Published in 1925, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

4 hr 41 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).