

Wrecked alone on an unknown shore, Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones, scion of an effetely intellectual Boston family, finds himself terrified and physically unfit. A series of adventures leads him to the cave of a beautiful girl, Nadara, who is as primitive and uneducated as she is...

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 - March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he also produced works in many genres.








For the twenty-second time since the great wave had washed him from the steamer's deck and hurled him, choking and sputtering, upon this inhospitable shore, Waldo Emerson saw the sun sinking rapidly toward the western horizon. Suddenly Waldo became conscious...



Cave Girl and was serialized in The All-Story magazine from July to September 1913. Following the publication of the sequel, The Cave Man, in 1917, the stories were published together in 1925 by A. C. McClurg & Co. This text is a combination of the magazine serials.




Blueblooded mama's boy Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones is swept overboard during a south seas voyage for his lifelong ill health. He finds himself on a jungle island. His bookish education has not prepared him to cope with these surroundings, and he is a coward. He is terrified when...

The Cave Girl is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first published in 1925. The story follows the adventures of a young man named Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones, who is stranded in a remote, unexplored jungle in Central America. He soon discovers a tribe of primitive humans,...

The transformation of a highly civilized, blue-blooded young Bostonian, into the savage bone-and-muscle chief of a band of shaggy cavemen is a challenge worthy of the talents of the man who created Tarzan of the Apes. In this tale, Burroughs tells, in a thrill-after-thrill novel,...


The transformation of a highly civilized, blue-blooded young Bostonian, into the savage bone-and-muscle chief of a band of shaggy cavemen is a challenge worthy of the talents of the man who created Tarzan of the Apes. In this tale, Burroughs tells, in a thrill-after-thrill novel,...

The creature dodged back, and the blow that would have crushed its skull grazed a hairbreadth from its face. Waldo struck no second blow, and the cold sweat sprang to his forehead when he realized how nearly he had come to murdering a young girl. "I crave...


The dim shadow of the thing was but a blur against the dim shadows of the wood behind it. The young man could distinguish no outline that might mark the presence as either brute or human. He could see no eyes, yet he knew that somewhere from out of that noiseless mass stealthy...