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Brother Men: The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston

Brother Men: The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston

Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Weston, Herbert T.
Cohen, Matt

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ISBN10: 0822335298
ISBN13: 9780822335290
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 13 2005
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Brother Men is the first published collection of private letters of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the phenomenally successful author of adventure, fantasy, and science fiction tales, including the Tarzan series. The correspondence presented here is Burroughs's decades-long exchange with Herbert T. Weston, the maternal great-grandfather of this volume's editor, Matt Cohen. The trove of correspondence Cohen discovered unexpectedly during a visit home includes hundreds of items--letters, photographs, telegrams, postcards, and illustrations--spanning from 1903 to 1945. Since Weston kept carbon copies of his own letters, the material documents a lifelong friendship that had begun in the 1890s, when the two men met in military school. In these letters, Burroughs and Weston discuss their experiences of family, work, war, disease and health, sports, and new technology over a period spanning two world wars, the Great Depression, and widespread political change. Their exchanges provide a window into the personal writings of the legendary creator of Tarzan and reveal Burroughs's ideas about race, nation, and what it meant to be a man in early-twentieth-century America.

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