At the Earth's Core
At the Earth's Core
BY
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Author of The "Tarzan" and the "Martian" Stories
ILLUSTRATED BY
J. ALLEN ST. JOHN
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1922
The awful thing behind me was gaining rapidly.
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Chapters (not listed in original)
- Prolog 1
- Chapter I: Toward the Eternal Fires 5
- Chapter II: A Strange World 24
- Chapter III: A Change of Masters 44
- Chapter IV: Dian the Beautiful 60
- Chapter V: Slaves 80
- Chapter VI: The Beginning of Horror 97
- Chapter VII: Freedom 110
- Chapter VIII: The Mahar Temple 122
- Chapter IX: The Face of Death 148
- Chapter X: Phutra Again 162
- Chapter XI: Four Dead Mahars 186
- Chapter XII: Pursuit 198
- Chapter XIII: The Sly One 207
- Chapter XIV: The Garden of Eden 219
- Chapter XV: Back to Earth 257
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ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE - The awful thing behind me was gaining rapidly
Frontispiece - The queen of the all-powerful Mahars of Pelucidar
82 - The man leaped in and ran his spear through the tarag's heart
108 - I tore the spear loose, and drove it through the serpent's jaws
120 - Still the girl advanced—chained by that clammy eye
138 - My shaft pierced the Sagoth's heart—he lunged at my feet stone dead
212 - As the creature darted toward us, I let drive straight for the breast
228 - Dian standing not ten paces behind me!
240 - Two enormous animals approaching us, and upon the back of each a human being
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