The Eternal Lover

Infobox Book |
name = The Eternal Lover


image_caption = Dust cover from the first edition of "The Eternal Lover"
author = Edgar Rice Burroughs
illustrator =
cover_artist = J. Allen St. John
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Fantasy novel, Lost world
publisher = A. C. McClurg
release_date = 3 October 1925
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 316 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by =
followed_by =

"The Eternal Lover" is an Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy-adventure novel. The story was begun in November 1913 under the working title "Nu of the Niocene". It was first run serially in two parts by "All-Story Weekly". [ [http://www.tarzan.com/bib/0759.html Tarzan.com] ] The first part, released 1914-03-07 was titled "The Eternal Lover" and the second part, released in four installments from 1915-01-23 to 1915-02-13 was titled "Sweetheart Eternal". The book version was first published by A. C. McClurg on 1925-10-03. In 1963, Ace Paperback published a version under the title "The Eternal Savage". An E-Text edition has been published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and is available online. [ [http://www.tarzan.com/print/o7el.html Official e-Text edition at Tarzan.com] ]

Plot summary

A cliff-dwelling warrior of 100,000 years ago, Nu, is magically transported to the present, falls in love with Victoria Custer of Beatrice, Nebraska, the reincarnation of his lost lover Nat-ul, and the two are transported back to the Stone Age. The story is set in Africa, and the present-day sequences guest star Victoria's brother Barney Custer, protagonist of Burroughs's Ruritanian novel "The Mad King", as well as his iconic hero Tarzan from his Tarzan novels.

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.erblist.com/erblist/esavagesum.html Edgar Rice Burroughs Summary Project page for "The Eternal Lover (Savage)"]