The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Fantasy

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote this tale of confused identity and royal intrigue in 1914 and 1915, as World War I was getting ready to happen: it means to be an homage to Anthony Hope's Prisoner of Zenda. But, of course, it isn't Hope writing, but Burroughs: the events that led to the war inform the book, and it speaks to the real events happening as Burroughs wrote. That makes it a very different story from Hope's almost-whimsical novel. Part of the reason Burroughs left such a lasting mark on the world is because he was engaged in the events that surrounded him; the news troubled him deeply and personally. As well it might! He was writing, as he always did, on fantastical topics; but it is the fantastic nature of the twentieth century that is the real text of the man's career.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Borgo Press
Published: 02/01/2003
ISBN: 9781592249336
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.36w x 0.99d

Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 03/31/2003 pg. 47