Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Im Mittelpunkt der Erde
Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love adventure, lost worlds and prehistoric monsters, and anyone curious about the roots of science fiction. The fight for freedom in Pellucidar brings heroes face to face with reptile rulers and enslaved people.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
At the Earth's Core is an adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the American writer who created Tarzan. It first appeared as a magazine serial in 1914 and later came out as a book. Burroughs wrote it for the pulp magazines of his day, where readers wanted speed, danger and strange new worlds. It opens a series of tales set in a land called Pellucidar.
The idea is simple and bold. What if the Earth were hollow, and a whole world lay on the inside of its shell? Two men dig down by machine and find out. You meet giant beasts, reptile masters, enslaved people and a young man who decides to fight. The book gives you a fast story, a vivid setting and a hero who learns to lead. Let us begin where the tale begins, in a desert, with a stranger who has a story to tell.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A stranger tells his tale in the desertFree
- 2The mole drives down and cannot turn
- 3Pellucidar, a world with no time
- 4Captured by the Mahars and their guards
- 5Dian the Beautiful and a dangerous escape
- 6Freedom, rule and the pulp voice
Punkt 1 von 6
A stranger tells his tale in the desert
The book begins with a frame. The narrator, who is named Burroughs himself, is traveling in the Sahara in Algeria. There he meets a man named David Innes, who claims to have come from the inside of the Earth. Innes asks for help and begins to tell how it all started.
Innes is a wealthy young American. He has put his money into the schemes of an old inventor named Abner Perry. Perry is a gentle, absent-minded man. He has spent years on a strange machine, and Innes has paid for it. The two have built it together, away from curious eyes.
The machine is called the iron mole. It is a long, pointed vehicle of steel, built to bore through rock. Perry hopes it will let miners reach ore deep underground. A rotating head at the front cuts the stone, and the debris is pushed out behind. It is Perry's great dream and Innes's great gamble.
The frame matters because it makes the wild tale feel like a report. The narrator is not telling you a made-up legend. He is passing on what a man swore to him. This was a common trick in adventure fiction of the time, and it lets the story begin with a promise that something real, or at least something strange, is about to be told.
As the two men climb in for the first full test, nothing in the story yet warns of what lies ahead. Perry is thrilled and Innes is cheerful. They are ready for a short trial run. The reader, though, senses that the mole will not simply dig a hole and come home.
That’s 1 of 6 key points.
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Who’s who
- David Innes
- A wealthy young American, he finances Perry's digging machine and encounters Dian among the captives of Pellucidar.
- Abner Perry
- An elderly inventor and David Innes's companion, he builds the iron mole that carries them into Pellucidar.
- Dian the Beautiful
- A proud woman from Amoz, she shares captivity with David Innes and becomes the object of his affection.
- Ghak the Hairy One
- A strong tribal leader in Pellucidar, he becomes an ally of David Innes against the ruling Mahars.
- Hooja the Sly One
- A cunning man of Pellucidar, he poses a danger to companions and enemies through his self-serving schemes.
- The Mahars
- Winged reptilian rulers of Pellucidar, they enslave human tribes and employ the Sagoths to guard their captives.
- The Sagoths
- Fierce, ape-like warriors serving the Mahars, they capture humans and guard prisoners such as David Innes.
About this edition
Every format is free to start, and print and large print are at cost.
- LengthAbout 50,000 words
- Reading timeAbout 3 h 20 min
- Listening time5 h 35 min
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary
- LanguagesEnglish and 12 other languages