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Disneys tarzan is based on edgar rice burroughs first tarzan story, tarzan of the apes. A tarzan novel mass market paperback march 12, 1984. With elmo lincoln, enid markey, true boardman, kathleen kirkham. First edition, first issue of the first tarzan book burroughs, edgar rice. First edition, first state, without the publisher s gold acorn device on the spine and with the printer slug in old english type on the page. All twentyeight chapters include versions in a spoken word format.
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Original apeman tale more violent, racist than the films. Tarzan of the apes is burroughs exciting, if improbable, story of an english lord, left by the death of his stranded parents in the hands of a motherly african ape who raises him as her own. Tarzan of the apes 1952 reprint of the 1912 first edition. Tarzan of the apes by edgar rice burroughs, 1914 online. Get the best deals on tarzan of the apes when you shop the largest online. Librivox recording of the return of tarzan, by edgar rice burroughs. Tarzan big little books and better little books tarzan, a fictional character created by edgar rice burroughs erb, first appeared in the novel tarzan of the apes magazine publication 1912 see above for the allstory cover and the first tarzan book was published in 1914, and then in twentythree sequels. Although he is aware that he is different from the apes of his tribe, who are neither white nor hairless, he nevertheless regards them as his people. Tarzan of the apes is an engrossing account of tarzan s early life, from birth to manhood. I had a great time reading tarzan of the apes, but it is absolutely a pulp novel. The novel picks up where tarzan of the apes left off.
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The ape man, feeling rootless in the wake of his noble sacrifice of his prospects of wedding jane porter, leaves america for europe to. Tarzan apes by edgar rice burroughs, first edition, 1914. Reared by a childless ape, the orphaned heir of the greystokes becomes one of the apes. John and alice rutherford clayton are now in the coastal area of the western jungle and here. By the time he is eighteen, he has the strength of a lion and rules the apes as their king. Tarzan of the apes is the first in a series of over twenty books about the title character tarzan.
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