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What good is a head full of books when hunger, wild animals and rival men test your strength?
In The Cave Girl, Edgar Rice Burroughs casts Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones into a harsh wild land. Comfortable American life leaves him thoughtful and well read, but unready for danger. Here, learning alone cannot keep him safe. He must find the courage to survive where others see only his weakness.
Nadara knows this world through hunting, strength and quick decisions. Bold and at home in the wild, she brings Waldo face to face with a harder way of living. Their meeting draws adventure and romance together, while each hardship presses a question: what truly makes a person worth admiring?
What you’ll discover
- A sheltered life tested Follow a bookish young man whose familiar strengths offer little shelter from immediate danger.
- Nadara's bold choices Meet a strong young woman who trusts her knowledge of the wild and acts quickly.
- Survival without comfort Face hunger, wild animals and rivals alongside a hero who must learn to fight.
- Romance amid hardship Discover a romance between two people shaped by very different ways of living.
- Strength beyond learning Explore the tension between polished manners, book learning and courage tested in the wild.
Who will love it
For readers who love early pulp adventure, lost-world settings and stories of a hero who must grow up fast, with wild survival, a bold heroine and love amid danger.
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- A sheltered young man meets the wild
- Nadara shows him a harder way to live
- Survival changes the man into a fighter
- What the story asks and how it is told
Who’s who
- Waldo Emerson Smith-JonesA soft, bookish young American who is cast into a harsh wild land and must learn to survive and fight.
- NadaraThe cave girl of the title, a strong young woman of a primitive tribe, at home in the wild and bold in her choices.
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The Cave Girl
by Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1913
Cast into a wild land, bookish Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones meets Nadara and must learn to survive and fight.
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The Cave Girl is an adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the American writer who created Tarzan. It first appeared in magazine form in the 1910s, when readers were hungry for tales of lost lands and wild survival, and it came out as a book later.
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A sheltered young man meets the wild
The story begins with Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones, a young man from a comfortable American background. He is thoughtful and well read, but he has little strength and little experience of danger. Burroughs makes him a figure the reader may smile at, because he seems built for libraries and drawing rooms, not for harsh country.
The plot soon sends him far from home, and he finds himself in a wild and little known land. There the rules of his old life count for nothing. Manners, money and learning do not stop a hungry beast or a hostile stranger.
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What is The Cave Girl about?
It is an adventure story about a sheltered young American, Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones, who is thrown into a wild land and meets Nadara, a strong woman of a primitive tribe. The book follows his struggle to survive and change.
Who wrote The Cave Girl and when?
Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote it. It first appeared in magazine form in the 1910s, and it was published as a book later. Burroughs is also the creator of Tarzan of the Apes.
Is The Cave Girl by the author of Tarzan?
Yes. Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote both. The Cave Girl shares the Tarzan books' love of wild settings, bold physical heroes and fast action, though it has its own hero and its own story.
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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