Edgar Gilbert (born near 1950) is an engineer. He is currently living in Morristown, NJ. He is the author of the checkers engine KingsRow. Morristown is a town located in Morris County, New Jersey. ...
Gilbert had read his first book by ERB in 1925, when he was just 12, and had met the author, who was a friend of his sister, Florence Gilbert Dearholt, and of her husband, Ashton Dearholt, two years later.
As young EdGilbert expanded his Burroughs collection, and was able to afford early or first editions, ERB would gladly inscribe them to him, often with humourous drawings such as this one.
As Gilbert puts it, "Those years from 1927 to 1941 were very special for me." In the present volume, the first in Burroughs' signature series, Tarzan, the son of an English nobleman, is raised in the jungle by a she-ape, falls in love with Jane Porter, and journeys to America to find her.
Although the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan rarely receive the intense scholarly attention garnered by Shakespeare, their canon does have some commonality with that of the Bard, in their lasting appeal and longevity on the stage.
There is no doubt that Gilbert was taking direct aim at Smith and, in view of the astonishing popularity of H.M.S. Pinafore, it is perfectly understandable that poor Smith became known as ‘Pinafore Smith’ and that the name stuck to him for the rest of his life” (Asimov, 163).
Gilbert is faithful to these plot elements, but he carefully and subtly weaves in new threads.
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