Tarzan of the Apes
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Tarzan of the Apes

Mass Market Paperback – International Edition, June 10, 2008

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Price
$13.14
Publisher
Penguin Classic
ISBN-13
978-0141036533

Description

About the Author Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875- 1950) is best remembered as the creator of the world famous character of Tarzan, one of the indispensable icons of popular culture. Burroughs also published science fiction and crime novels.

Features & Highlights

  • Abandoned to his fate when his English parents die in the African jungle, a baby boy is rescued and reared by a loving ape foster mother. Conquering the savage laws of the wilderness, Tarzan grows into a mighty warrior and becomes leader of his tribe of apes until he encounters, for the first time, his own kind - humans. An expedition of white treasure hunters has entered his jungle kingdom, accompanied by the beautiful Jane Porter. Tarzan's primitive heart is struck and he determines to become civilized in order to win her. But will the charms of this charming and cultured young woman overcome when the spirit of his wild nature beckons?

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Wonderful and surprising read.

My childhood was marked, in part, by Tarzan. The Tarzan of television and the movies, that is. I found the jungle king of the written page utterly unlike - and superior to - the one I'd grown accustomed to on screen. My reading enjoyment was enriched by this edition's inclusion of fan mail written to the magazine that had initially serialized the story of the Ape Man. I highly recommend this as summer reading at the cabin - just as Tarzan read in the cabin of his unknown parents.

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