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What if the love that haunts you belongs to a world before cities?
Victoria Custer feels out of place in her own time. Bold and restless, she prefers open country to drawing rooms. In The Eternal Savage, Edgar Rice Burroughs gives her a strange bond with a man from the Stone Age—and a longing that reaches far beyond the world she knows.
That man is Nu, an honorable hunter whose strength and speed face constant tests from beasts and rival tribes. Nat-ul, a woman of his own age and tribe, adds tension to his story. Across these distant worlds, Burroughs joins prehistoric danger with a sweeping question: can love survive time itself?
What you’ll discover
- A restless heroine Meet Victoria Custer, whose pull toward an older world makes ordinary life feel too narrow.
- A Stone Age hunter Follow Nu through a world where spear, club, and cunning stand between life and death.
- Danger at every turn Enter a prehistoric landscape of great beasts, sudden ambushes, and desperate chases.
- Love beyond time Explore a romance built around the possibility that love can outlast the ages.
- Adventure before explanation Enjoy a tale that puts action and feeling ahead of detailed scientific explanation.
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For readers who love early pulp adventure, lost worlds and romance on a grand scale, and anyone curious about Burroughs beyond Tarzan.
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- A modern woman haunted by the past
- Nu, a hero of the Stone Age
- Dangers of a world before cities
- Love that crosses the ages
Who’s who
- Victoria CusterA bold young woman of modern times who feels a strange pull toward a far older world.
- NuA strong and honorable hunter of the Stone Age who must survive beasts and rival tribes.
- Nat-ulA woman of Nu's own age and tribe, whose place in his life gives the story its tension.
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Der ewige Wilde
by Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1915
Victoria Custer feels bound to a Stone Age hunter as love reaches across time amid savage beasts and rival tribes.
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A modern woman haunted by the past
The story centers on Victoria Custer, a young woman of the early twentieth century. She is bold, restless and more at ease with open country than with drawing rooms. Burroughs sets her among people who value comfort and manners, and she never quite belongs among them.
What sets her apart is an inner pull toward a distant past. She feels drawn to something ancient, as if part of her already knows a wilder age. Burroughs uses this feeling to link her ordinary life to a world far older than any city.
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What is The Eternal Savage about?
It is an adventure romance that links a modern woman, Victoria Custer, with a hunter of the Stone Age named Nu. The story plays with the idea that love can survive across enormous spans of time.
Was The Eternal Savage published under another title?
Yes. It first appeared in a magazine in 1914 as The Eternal Lover. It was later issued as a book in 1918 under the title The Eternal Savage.
Who is Nu in The Eternal Savage?
Nu is the hero from the prehistoric world, a hunter and fighter of great strength and honor. He lives among tribes who survive by spear and cunning, and he is the man Victoria Custer feels bound to.
The author
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1875–1950 · American adventure novelist
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American writer born in Chicago in 1875. He wrote novels about Tarzan and novels set on Mars. His first Mars story appeared in 1912 and became the book A Princess of Mars in 1917. He later lived in California and died in Encino in 1950.
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