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Known as a classic within the adventure genre, Tarzan of the Apes by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs follows the story of a man raised by apes in the jungle. Published in 1914, this novel is the first in a series of twenty-four books that tells of Tarzan and his encounters... Read Full Overview

Orphaned as a babe in the African jungle, tiny John Clayton, the only child of the Lord and Lady Greystoke, is rescued by a tribe of great apes. The child, now named "Tarzan," grows to manhood in this savage world, among the fierce anthropoids. Aided by his keen knife and... Read Full Overview

The first book in Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic series about Tarzan of the Apes.

Having failed in a number of occupations as a young man, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) found his niche as a writer with Tarzan of the Apes, first published in 1914. Highly imaginative, exotic and suspenseful, the story tells of an infant -- the son of an aristocratic... Read Full Overview

Tarzan of the Apes is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine The All-Story in October 1912.

Excerpt: ...the steel forearms of the ape-man about the back of Sabor's neck. Weaker and weaker became the lioness's efforts. At last Clayton saw the immense muscles of Tarzan's shoulders and biceps leap into corded knots beneath the silver moonlight. There was a long sustained... Read Full Overview

An adventure tale that has capture the ages The first book in the legendary Tarzan series tells the story of John Clayton, born in the coastal jungles of Africa to a marooned couple from England, adopted as an infant by apes after they die, then raised in ignorance of his... Read Full Overview

A central figure in American popular culture, Tarzan first came swinging through the jungle in the pages of a pulp-fiction magazine in 1912, and subsequently appeared in the novel that went on to spawn numerous film, full-length cartoon, and theatrical adaptations. The infant... Read Full Overview

John Clayton, nacido en las selvas de frica ecuatorial, era el hijo de una pareja de n ufragos, John y Alice Clayton, Lord y Lady Greystoke. Lord Greystoke hab a sido asesinado por Kerchak, el feroz rey de los monos. Adoptado como un beb por la mona Kala tras la muerte de sus... Read Full Overview