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Tarzan of the Apes

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First published: 1912
Pages: 242

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Out of the Sea
23:18
The Savage Home
20:42
Life and Death
14:52
The Apes
16:21
The White Ape
17:44
Jungle Battles
14:13
The Light of Knowledge
25:53
The Tree-Top Hunter
12:37
Man and Man
23:34
The Fear-Phantom
11:36
King of the Apes
22:41
Man’s Reason
17:58
His Own Kind
29:36
At the Mercy of the Jungle
21:25
The Forest God
10:33
Most Remarkable
20:59
Burials
22:07
The Jungle Toll
23:04
Call of the Primitive
22:40
Heredity
26:01
The Village of Torture
13:30
The Search Party
22:19
Brother Men
18:27
Lost Treasure
17:08
The Outpost of the World
22:29
The Height of Civilization
22:10
The Giant Again
26:41
Conclusion
20:21

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Edgar Rice Burroughs published Tarzan of the Apes in 1912, just months after A Princess of Mars, and the book made him one of the most famous American writers of the twentieth century. The novel is the origin story. Lord and Lady Greystoke, marooned on the West African coast in the 1880s, build a small cabin and have a son. They die. The infant is adopted by the great ape Kala and grows up in the jungle as Tarzan, learning to read English from his dead parents' books, swinging through the trees, killing leopards, and eventually meeting the first humans he has ever seen.

Those humans include Jane Porter, the daughter of an American professor whose expedition has been marooned on the same coast. Tarzan falls in love with Jane on sight. He saves the expedition repeatedly. He follows Jane back to Wisconsin in the second act, learns French and English, and presents himself to her in human society without revealing his actual identity. The novel ends with one of the most famous lines in pulp fiction, which the original 1932 film changed to Me Tarzan, you Jane, but which Burroughs himself never wrote. The book is brisk, melodramatic, and the foundation of the largest single-author adventure franchise of its era.

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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.