Language: en
Published in: 1912
Subject(s): Novels - Adventure
Source: Wikisource
Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923).
When Tarzan is orphaned as a baby deep in the African jungle, the apes adopt him and raise him as their own. By the time the boy is ten, he can swing through the trees and talk to the animals. By the time he is eighteen, he has the strength of a lion and rules the apes as their king. But Tarzan knows he's different. Will he ever discover his true identity?
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Burroughs has created in Tarzan an extreme example of a hero figure unalloyed with character flaws or faults. Tarzan is described by Burroughs as b...
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on Apr 18, 2009 at 11:00
Love this book! Tarzan is such a heroic and noble fellow.
on May 22, 2008 at 17:37
By far Burroughs best and most famous novel, Tarzan of the Apes tells the story of a boy lost in the jungle and raised by apes in a way that is both more fantastic and more believable than any of the movie versions, all of which miss some major points. Though it has all the ethnocentric assumptions, unbelievable coincidences, and (relatively little) racism of its time, it is still one of the greatest adventure stories of all time.