Edgar Rice Burroughs 3 hr 27 min read

A scientist dissolves the last grisly evidence of his forbidden work in acid and sobs at his desk, for on a Borneo island he has been creating living men, and Number Thirteen will change everything.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1929 novel is a rousing lost-world adventure of artificial life. Vivid, thrilling, gloriously improbable. Read it for classic ERB, a mad experiment in manufacturing men on a jungle island, a soulless creation who proves the noblest of all, and a headlong tale of love and monstrosity.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 27 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).