The complete online text of The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

On December 1, 1911, at about eight o'clock in the evening, a thirty-six-year-old man picked up a pen and began to write a story. This man had lived out almost half his life and was, by his own standards, a failure. He had tried many different occupation...

It is probably not surprising that a man nearly forty years of age, with a wife and children to support but no real taste for the pedestrian routines of business, should dream of being carried away to another planet or of being born in the jungle, free o...

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American adventure writer whose Tarzan stories created a folk hero known around the world. His novels sold more than 100 million copies in 56 languages, making him one of the most widely read authors of the twentie...

ALAN BENNETT'S delightful play The Madness of King George III has survived the transfer from stage to screen, and emerges equally enjoyable on film. When you consider how very few stage works make it in the movies, and how very few of those...

BILL PENNINGTON The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 04-16-1995 THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE By BILL PENNINGTON Date: 04-16-1995, Sunday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Biographical: GEORGE STEINBRENNER FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- There was the time George Steinbrenner decided it was...

was there at the double-super-secret rehearsal. And my reaction was: Do it, Kevin! I would have kept silent if word hadn’t leaked (in Michael Riedel’s piece in the Post of June 23), about the secret rehearsal of King Lear the previous week, with Kevin Kline...

was there at the double-super-secret rehearsal. And my reaction was: Do it, Kevin! I would have kept silent if word hadn’t leaked (in Michael Riedel’s piece in the Post of June 23), about the secret rehearsal of King Lear the previous week, with Kevin...