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I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty.
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Earnest, grave, epic and unpretentious.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- First published
- September 12, 1973
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Bibliotech Press, IndyPublish.com, Cosmos
- Editions
- 456
- Language
- Spanish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9781475281965
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“I AM A very old man; how old I do not know.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a businessman. During the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891, he spent half a year on his brothers' ranch on the Raft River in Idaho. He attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and then the Michigan Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1895. He failed the entrance exam for West Point, and so became an enlisted soldier with the 7th U.S. Cavalry in Fort Grant, Arizona Territory. He was discharged in 1897, having been found ineligible for service due to a heart problem. He drifted, working odd jobs at ranches across Idaho, then came to work at his father's firm in 1899. He married Emma Centennia Hulbert in 19
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