The Complete Land that Time Forgot

This volume assembles all three of Edgar Rice Burroughs' science-fantasy "lost world" novels, "The Land That Time Forgot," "The People That Time Forgot," and "Out of Time's Abyss." Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, Burroughs�s story ultimately develops into a lost world story reminiscent of such novels as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle�s "The Lost World" (1912) and Jules Verne�s "The Mysterious Island" (1874) and "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864). Burroughs adds his own twist by postulating a unique biological system for his lost world, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system is only hinted at in "The Land That Time Forgot" and is presented as a mystery whose explication is gradually worked out over the course of the next two novels. It forms a thematic element serving to unite three otherwise rather loosely linked stories.