Tarzan, Volume One: The Ultimate Edgar Rice Burroughs

Authors: Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Publisher: HarperPerennial Classics
BISAC/Subject: FIC000000
ISBN: 9781443417303, Related ISBNs: 1443417300, 9781443417303
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 1000,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

Learn how to survive in the jungle in the first four novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s best-known series. In Tarzan of the Apes, join Tarzan, a young boy raised by apes, as he saves the beautiful Jane Porter and learns how to be human. In The Return of Tarzan, Tarzan becomes chief of a native tribe, wins Jane Porter’s hand, and sets sail for civilization. In The Beasts of Tarzan, Tarzan fights to free his son Jack and wife Jane after they are kidnapped. And in The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan’s son Jack is lured to the jungle where he finds his own place among the apes and rescues a beautiful young woman named Meriem.

Edgar Rice Burroughs’s classic Tarzan series celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2012. One of the best-known literary characters in the world, Tarzan books have been adapted many times for radio, television, stage, and cinema.

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