Pellucidar
A Hollow Earth Adventure of Prehistoric Peoples, Sinister Mahars, and Tribal LiberationBy Edgar Rice Burroughs
Length5h 35m
About this audiobook
Published in 1915, *Pellucidar* carries Edgar Rice Burroughs's subterranean adventure into a world hidden within the Earth, where David Innes and Abner Perry confront the tyrannical Mahar and encounter prehistoric peoples, strange ecologies, and radically unfamiliar spatial laws. A sequel to *At the Earth's Core*, the novel combines lost-world romance, speculative science, heroic quest, and imperial adventure. Its vigorous first-person narration, rapid pacing, episodic structure, and extravagant inventions exemplify the early twentieth-century pulp tradition, while its imagined civilization offers a revealing fantasy of domination, resistance, and cultural encounter. Beneath its entertainment lies a characteristic Burroughsian tension between technological modernity and the primitive, the known world and the liberating possibilities of the unknown. Burroughs, an American author whose military service, commercial work, and later literary career informed his fascination with escape and reinvention, became one of the defining popular writers of the adventure genre. His success with the Tarzan novels encouraged him to develop further environments in which ordinary social hierarchies could be overturned and individual courage tested. *Pellucidar* reflects his interest in evolutionary speculation, geography, and the anxieties surrounding modern civilization, transforming contemporary assumptions into the imaginative architecture of an inner world. Readers interested in the history of science fiction, pulp literature, and the lost-world tradition will find *Pellucidar* especially rewarding. It should be approached both as exuberant escapism and as a culturally revealing artifact: a novel whose imaginative daring, narrative momentum, and speculative world-building continue to illuminate the origins of popular science fiction.
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Rating★★★★ 3.9 (5.5K)
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GenreScience Fiction, Action and Adventure
Length5 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Journey to Other Worlds (Annotated)
17CHAPTER VIII
2PROLOGUE
18CAPTIVE
3CHAPTER I
19CHAPTER IX
4LOST ON PELLUCIDAR
20HOOJA'S CUTTHROATS APPEAR
5CHAPTER II
21CHAPTER X
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6TRAVELING WITH TERROR
22THE RAID ON THE CAVE-PRISON
7CHAPTER III
23CHAPTER XI
8SHOOTING THE CHUTES—AND AFTER
24ESCAPE
9CHAPTER IV
25CHAPTER XII
10FRIENDSHIP AND TREACHERY
26KIDNAPED!
11CHAPTER V
27CHAPTER XIII
12SURPRISES
28RACING FOR LIFE
13CHAPTER VI
29CHAPTER XIV
14A PENDENT WORLD
30GORE AND DREAMS
15CHAPTER VII
31CHAPTER XV
16FROM PLIGHT TO PLIGHT
32CONQUEST AND PEACE
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