The Mucker
The Mucker is one of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s most vivid adventure novels, published in 1914. Billy Byrne is a brutal young tough from the slums of Chicago, a ‘mucker’ with no manners and no morals, who is shanghaied aboard a ship bound for the Pacific. Wrecked on a wild island of headhunters and cast among Japanese pirates and a kidnapped society girl, Billy is slowly and believably changed by hardship, danger, and love into a man of courage and honour. Burroughs tells a rough, fast-moving story of redemption, running from the streets of America to the far side of the world. This free PDF and EPUB offers the complete novel.
About the Author
Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in 1875 in Chicago into a comfortable family, and spent his early adult years trying and failing at one career after another. He attended a military academy briefly. He served in the United States Cavalry in Arizona Territory. He worked…
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