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Tarzan and the Ant Men

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First published: 1924
Pages: 221

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Chapter I
24:21
Chapter II
26:35
Chapter III
25:26
Chapter IV
21:10
Chapter V
25:59
Chapter VI
21:17
Chapter VII
20:28
Chapter VIII
19:12
Chapter IX
21:42
Chapter X
20:50
Chapter XI
21:08
Chapter XII
18:57
Chapter XIII
24:35
Chapter XIV
20:13
Chapter XV
19:29
Chapter XVI
18:48
Chapter XVII
23:53
Chapter XVIII
19:04
Chapter XIX
18:48
Chapter XX
18:34
Chapter XXI
15:21
Chapter XXII
18:28

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Tarzan and the Ant Men was published in 1924 and is one of the most unusual books in the entire sequence. After crashing his small airplane in an uncharted forest, Tarzan stumbles into the country of the Alali, a race of giant women who keep their tiny men as slaves and breeding stock. He eventually escapes south into Minuni, a country of two-foot-tall humanoid Minunians who live in walled cities and ride hawks like cavalry, perpetually at war with one another.

The Minunian sections are Burroughs at his most genuinely science-fictional, with worked-out social systems, military tactics scaled for tiny soldiers, and a detailed catastrophic political conflict between the cities of Trohanadalmakus and Veltopismakus. Tarzan is shrunk to Minunian size partway through the novel by a Veltopismakian sorcerer, which lets him participate in the politics firsthand. The mismatch between the ape-man at full strength and the world of tiny soldiers is genuinely funny. A late-period high point of the series.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American writer, recognized for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best known for creating the characters Tarzan and John Carter, he also wrote the Pellucidar series, the Amtor series, and the Caspak trilogy.