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Classical in form, earnest, unpretentious and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- First published
- 1921
- Pages
- 348
- Publisher
- IndyPublish.com, Canaveral Press, A.C. McClurg & Co.
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781404319264
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“BILLY BYRNE was a product of the streets and alleys of Chicago's great West Side.”
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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