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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 English couple — abandoned when his parents die in the jungles of Africa. Rescued and reared by apes, he learns to speak their language and imitate their ability to travel swiftly through the treetops.
Eventually, his courage, immense strength and exceptional intelligence earn him the respect and admiration not only of the apes, but of all the creatures of the jungle. The ape-man's story is told here in this classic, fast-paced novel, packed with riveting adventures as Tarzan avenges the killing of Kala, his ape-mother, subdues man-eating beasts of the jungle, meets and falls in love with the beautiful Jane Porter, vanquishes greedy pirate-adventurers, and deals with assorted other threats.
Although Burroughs followed this story with many Tarzan sequels, it is doubtful if any ever equaled this novel for its originality, readability and sheer storytelling power. In this inexpensive edition, complete and unabridged, it will thrill a new generation with the legendary exploits of the "Lord of the Apes."
- Sales Rank: #308577 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-10-09
- Released on: 2012-10-09
- Format: Kindle eBook
Amazon.com Review
First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty."
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[Burroughs has] a gift very few writers of any kind possess: he can describe action vividly. Gore Vidal --Gore Vidal
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Super Man or Super Beast? Tarzan is gloriously both!
By John Panagopoulos
***This review may contain spoilers***
As countless reviewers - Amazon and otherwise - have exhaustively pointed out, Edgar Rice Burrough's enduring "Tarzan of the Apes" (hereafter TOTA) is generally not considered haute couture or advanced literature for various reasons - latent African racism, ignorance about African terrain, wildlife, and culture, broad stock characters, latent imperialistic superiority, improbable situations. Then why has TOTA survived, and produced one of the most recognized and admired characters in all of literature? I believe the main reason for this success is that Tarzan is one of the few characters who has reconciled the "savage" and "civilized" aspects of his personality into a glorious archetype. He certainly does not suffer the tortures of a Henry Jekyll, or a Bruce Banner, or any other multiple personality sufferer. In fact, Burroughs in TOTA seems to suggest that to survive and thrive anywhere, you must combine the best of nature AND nurture, and the best of instinct and intelligence.
Under the fierce protection of Kala the she-ape (herself the literary epitome of indomitable motherhood), the orphaned Tarzan harrowingly and gradually experiences the literal law of the jungle. He is at a primitive disadvantage, since he will always be smaller than the hostile anthropoids he lives with. Although he eventually masters animalistic skills, strength, and cunning, TOTA demonstrates that pure instinct and the feral will to live, by themselves, will not be enough to prove Tarzan's worth. Tarzan discovers that his superior brain gives him the knowledge, learning, memory, and invention (that instinct cannot) to become the anthropoids' equal and eventually their master. Tarzan is an exceptional evolutionary success.
Then "civilization" stumbles into Tarzan's jungle in the form of the dotty Dr. Archimedes Q Porter and his aristocratic but steely daughter Jane. They, and especially the winsome Jane, threaten Tarzan's balance of his animal and human nature. Tarzan has (if incredulously) become literate by deciphering the books left by his late parents in the treehouse, and even found fingerprints -his own as an infant- that hold the key to his true identity. However, despite his successful preservation of Jane and company from the jungle's horrors, they tellingly believe that they are dealing with two people - the naked savage that keeps saving them and the articulate gentleman who keeps leaving them notes and provisions. Jane and company leave before resolving the mystery, and leave Tarzan at a psychological crossroads: remain in the jungle or become more civilized in order to pursue Jane to the modern world, which in its way can be every bit as forbidding as the wild?
Fortunately a French officer named D'Arnot has arrived in the jungle searching for the Porters, but is ambushed, stripped, and imprisoned by cannibals. Tarzan locates and saves him and brings him to the treehouse. A grateful D'Arnot teaches Tarzan's some of the finer practices of civilization. Tarzan reluctantly but swiftly learns these strange manners because, as D'Arnot eventually reveals to him by forensis fingerprint analysis, Tarzan is actually aristocratic John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, and therefore "fit" to woo and wed Jane. So, from the moment Jane and company enter the scene, TOTA does show somewhat of a struggle between Tarzan's "baser" and "nobler" traits, but it also shows that he can master both and be savage when he has to be (e.g. killing a lion on a bet with D'Arnot's friends in an African port and disarming a crazed madman there), and chivalrous when he has to be (tracking Jane to northern Wisconsin and sacrificing his own happiness by permitting a cousin, Robert(?) Clayton to wed Jane, at least for the moment).
Perhaps Burroughs was a better raconteur (storyteller) of fantastic tales than pragmatic social scientist. But in TOTA, he managed to convey the eternal interaction of human dichotomy (man v. beast, thought vs. instinct), show that it sometimes overlapped (e.g. the mutineers), and convincingly demonstrate in Tarzan that that duality can work together to create an exceptional being indeed.
64 of 82 people found the following review helpful.
Plenty to chew on - just hard to swallow
By Peter Reeve
There are books that everyone 'knows' but hardly anybody reads any more. Reading these classics can be quite illuminating; they are not what you think. For example, do you really know how Dracula was killed? Or why The Virginian said "Smile when you call me that"? Read the originals; you'll be surprised.
"Tarzan of the Apes", the first of 23 Tarzan adventures by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is full of surprises. The Tarzan of this book is not the Johnny Weissmuller or Ron Ely that you might know. He is not raised by gorillas (as I had thought) but by mythical 'anthropoids', a sort of missing link between man and gorilla, with rudimentary speech and a social structure that includes ritual and dance. This is a science fiction tale, a sort of "Lost World" meets "Jungle Book". Tarzan befriends and converses with (and kills and eats) a variety of beasts.
There are aspects of the story that modern readers will find as hard to swallow as some of Tarzan's raw meat dinners. For example, this jungle is populated with lions, hyenas and elephants, creatures that in reality never go near rain forests. We are also asked to believe that Tarzan teaches himself to read and write from books that he finds.
Many modern readers will also find the racialism difficult to take. He boasts of being "Tarzan, killer of beasts and many black men". Coming on a village deep in the jungle, he immediately readies his bow and poisoned arrows. When his European companion admonishes him that it is wrong to kill humans, the hero protests "But these are black men". (Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't believe that scene was included in the Disney version). This is a 1914 American novel, with all the prejudices intact.
It's quite well written; Burroughs is very readable. The plotting is a strange mixture of ingenuity and clumsiness. There is a very clever device that involves Jane thinking there are two ape-men, one an admirer, the other her rescuer. But the plot also requires three separate mutinies, two of which just happen to involve cousins, to take place off the same remote African beach. This is beyond coincidence.
So is this genre classic still worth reading? I think so, for the same reason "Dracula" and "The Virginian" are still worth reading; this is the book that started it all.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
fond nostalgia of boyhood
By George Schaefer
This is a great book for youngsters. It is a classic adventure story. Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote a great tale of adventure. I read this book in junior high school and then again in high school. I recently reread it again now in my thirties. It is still a compelling read. One grows to care for Tarzan of the Apes. The movies do not do it justice. The original is the best. A lot of the subsequent Tarzan novels do not measure up to this one. It is a bona fide classic of adventure fiction. It deserves a place next to works by Rider Haggard and Zane Grey. I find myself waxing nostalgic for youth gone by and Tarzan of the Apes is right there. A fun read at any age.
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