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More than 60 years ago, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, two novice writers at the dawn of their careers, sat down to write a novel about the summer of 1944, when one of their friends killed another in a moment of brutal and tragic bloodshed. Alternating chapters, they pieced together a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and obsession, art and violence.

After prospecting for gold in Arizona, Confederate Civil War hero John Carter stumbles upon a mysterious cave - a portal, it turns out, to the ecologically endangered planet Mars. Once there, he finds his place with a tribe of green Martians, and his newfound powers in the reduced Martian gravity make him an important figure in their war against a rival tribe. At the heart of this conflict lies the beautiful Dejah Thoris, the kidnapped Princess of Helium. Rescuing her soon becomes paramount, for only she can help Carter save the dying planet he now calls home.

Two complete audiobooks for the price of one - and the beginning of one of science fiction's most imaginative series. John Carter is a Civil War veteran with nothing left to lose. He heads out West looking for gold and ends up somewhere considerably further from Virginia than he bargained for -...

Three complete audiobooks for the price of one - the full Tarzan trilogy and the perfect way to dive into one of adventure fiction's most enduring series. He was born to English aristocrats in the African jungle. Raised by apes. Became something neither world had ever produced before. Tarzan of...

Two complete audiobooks for the price of one - and one of adventure fiction's great series to discover. He was born to English aristocrats in the African jungle. They didn't survive long enough to raise him. Adopted by a tribe of great apes, he grew up learning the law of the jungle instead of...

Three complete audiobooks for the price of one - the full Barsoom trilogy and the perfect way to lose yourself in one of science fiction's most imaginative worlds. John Carter didn't choose Mars. Mars chose him. Transported from the Arizona desert to a dying red planet, he finds himself stronger...

Deep in the uncharted jungles of Africa, a child is orphaned —and raised not by men, but by apes. In Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs introduces one of literature’s most enduring heroes: a man caught between two worlds. Raised in the wild yet driven by an innate curiosity, Tarzan teaches himself to read from abandoned books, discovers his human identity, and ultimately faces a choice between civilization and the life he has always known.

Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the...

The king of the jungle returns, brought to life in a whole new way. Tarzan left the jungle once. He tried civilization, tried society, tried living by rules that never quite fit a man raised by apes in the African wilderness. And then the woman he loved chose someone else, and the world he'd...

The wildest Tarzan adventure yet, brought to life in a whole new way. They took his wife. They took his son. And they left Tarzan stranded on an island with nothing but the jungle and his instincts. That was their first mistake. The Beasts of Tarzan is the most primal and relentless entry in the...

The ultimate jungle adventure, brought to life in a whole new way. Tarzan of the Apes begins with a shipwreck on the coast of Africa and ends with one of the most bittersweet conclusions in adventure fiction. In between is everything - a boy who grows up learning the laws of the jungle instead...

In the late twentieth century, Admiral Julian 3rd can get no rest, for he knows his future. He will be reborn as his grandson in the next century to journey through space and make an ominous discovery inside the moon; he will live again in the dark years of the twenty-second century as Julian...

Um dos grandes nomes da geração beat, William S. Burroughs retrata a crise de abstinência das drogas e a paixão obsessiva homossexual do seu alter ego William Lee. O livro que deu origem ao filme dirigido por Luca Guadagnino, de Me chame pelo seu nome. Embora tenha sido escrito em 1952...

The classic sci-fi adventure, brought to life in a whole new way. John Carter is a Civil War veteran with nothing left to lose. He heads out West looking for gold and ends up somewhere considerably further from Virginia than he bargained for - transported to the surface of Mars, where the...

The classic sci-fi adventure continues, brought to life in a whole new way. John Carter is back on Mars. After years stranded on Earth with no way to return, he finds himself once again on the red planet - only to discover that the world he left behind has changed in ways he never expected. What...

The classic sci-fi adventure reaches its epic conclusion, brought to life in a whole new way. John Carter has survived the valley of false gods and the treachery of Barsoom's most powerful institutions. But the fight isn't over. The woman he loves is still a prisoner, scattered enemies are...

The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is...

“A major work, Burroughs’s heart laid bare, the origin of his writing”—Allen Ginsberg The definitive text of William S. Burroughs’s early, long-unpublished novel, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, now adapted for film directed by Luca Guadagnino and...

The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of RUNNING WITH SCISSORS returns with his first novel in nearly thirty years. Set in 1990s New York City, The Debris Field follows a wealthy nuclear family—a photographer mother, an early dot-com squatter father, their loner son, and...

John Carter returns in this, his most thrilling adventure yet! Continuing where The Gods of Mars left off, we see John Carter, desperately seeking to rescue his lost wife; Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium. To this end, he pursues his two adversaries: Matai Shang, father of Therns, and Thurid the...