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What does it mean to be human when science and survival meet in the jungles of Borneo?
The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs brings science fiction into the jungles of Borneo. Science, survival, and the search for humanity share the ground in an adventure that asks you to look beyond its unsettling title.
Here, the promise of adventure meets a question with a personal edge: what makes us human? The book brings that search into a jungle setting, placing its central idea alongside the urgent demands of survival.
What you’ll discover
- Science meets adventure Explore a story that brings scientific questions into the world of jungle adventure.
- The jungles of Borneo Enter the setting at the heart of this tale of survival and humanity.
- A search for humanity Follow the question of what being human means through an adventure shaped by science.
- Survival at the center Discover an adventure where survival stands beside the search for something deeply human.
- An unsettling title Consider the contrast between the name The Monster Men and its search for humanity.
Who will love it
Readers who like fast adventure, pirates and head hunters, mad scientists, tropical rivers, and a love story where a hero must prove his worth through loyalty, courage and a strong sense of fair play.
What’s inside
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- A scientist hides a secret too terrible
- A hidden camp and a pirate attack
- The court of mystery and a mad plan
- One creature escapes and another rescues
- Von Horn plants hatred and the camp is raided
- A storm, a wreck, and a leader named Bulan
- Rivers, treachery, and orangutans
- What makes a soul
- Greed, loyalty, and how the tale is told
Who’s who
- Bulan (Number Thirteen)A giant with no past who is taken for the professor's newest creation, he learns fast and sets out to save Virginia from her captors.
- Virginia MaxonThe professor's brave, proud daughter, who runs a machine gun, swims a dark river, and trusts her heart over what she is told.
- Professor Arthur MaxonA gentle scientist who has made life by chemistry, he is driven by an obsession that blinds him to his daughter's wishes.
- Dr. Carl von HornThe professor's assistant and a former naval officer, he wants Virginia and her fortune and lies to get them.
- Sing LeeThe old Chinese cook sees and hears everything, speaks in broken English, and protects Virginia with courage and cunning.
- Rajah Muda SaffirA Malay pirate chief who lusts after Virginia and the treasure, and sends hundreds of Dyak warriors to seize them.
- BududreenThe Ithaca's Malay mate, who wants the heavy chest and a reward for delivering the girl, and plays every side.
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Die Monster-Männer
by Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1913
In the jungles of Borneo, a giant with no past fights pirates and headhunters for a professor's daughter.
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The Monster Men is a jungle adventure by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author best known for the Tarzan books. It opens in a quiet American university town, where Professor Arthur Maxon has learned to create living beings by chemistry.
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A scientist hides a secret too terrible
The story opens in a locked workshop in Ithaca, New York. Professor Maxon drops the last pieces of a body into a vat of acid, then sinks into a chair and sobs without tears. His daughter Virginia knocks at the door and scolds him for spending three days there without food or sleep. He promises to finish by noon and then take her away on a long holiday.
Maxon is a gentle, wealthy man who taught natural science at Cornell, and the small salary meant nothing to him. He took up biology to help humanity in a practical way. In secret, with his great inherited wealth, he has done what no other scientist can do: he has made life by chemical means. Even his daughter does not know.
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What is The Monster Men about?
A scientist named Professor Maxon makes living beings by chemistry and hides his work on an island off Borneo.
Who is Number Thirteen in The Monster Men?
He is the handsome giant with no memories whom the professor and von Horn believe to be the last and most perfect of his experiments. The truth about his past is kept back until the end. He later takes the name Bulan from the Dyaks, and it means moon. Which is a name he keeps as his own. He later takes the name Bulan from the Dyaks, and it means moon.
Who is Sing Lee?
Sing is the old Chinese cook on the professor's ship and camp. He is brave and watchful, speaks in a broken English, and quietly helps Virginia and the young giant while others scheme.
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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