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Tarzan of the Apes

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2 - Out to Sea
2 - The Savage Home
3 - Life and Death
4 - The Apes
5 - The White Ape
6 - Jungle Battles
7 - The Light of Knowledge
8 - The Tree-top Hunter
9 - Man and Man
10 - The Fear-phantom
11 - "King of the Apes"
12 - Man's Reason
13 - His Own Kind
14 - At the Mercy of the Jungle
15 - The Forest God
16 - "Most Remarkable"
17 - Burials
18 - The Jungle Toll
19 - The Call of the Primitive
20 - Heredity
21 - The Village of Torture
22 - The Search Party
23 - Brother Men
24 - Lost Treasure
25 - The Outpost of the World
26 - The Height of Civilization
27 - The Giant Again
28 - Conclusion
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1932
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I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.
May contain spoilers
"I never knew who my father was."
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After Clayton had plunged into the jungle, the sailors - mutineers of the Arrow - fell into a discussion of their next step; but on one point all were agreed - that they should hasten to put off to the anchored Arrow, where they could at least be safe from the spears of their unseen foe. And so, while Jane Porter and Esmeralda were barricading themselves within the cabin, the cowardly crew of cutthroats were pulling rapidly for their ship in the two boats that had brought them ashore.

So much had Tarzan seen that day that his head was in a whirl of wonder. But the most wonderful sight of all, to him, was the face of the beautiful white girl.

Here at last was one of his own kind; of that he was positive. And the young man and the two old men; they, too, were much as he had pictured his own people to be.

But doubtless they were as ferocious and cruel as other men he had seen. The fact that they alone of all the party were unarmed might account for the fact that they had killed no one. They might be very different if provided with weapons.

Tarzan had seen the young man pick up the fallen revolver of the wounded Snipes and hide it away in his breast; and he had also seen him slip it cautiously to the girl as she entered the cabin door.

He did not understand anything of the motives behind all that he had seen; but, somehow, intuitively he liked the young man and the two old men, and for the girl he had a strange longing which he scarcely understood. As for the big black woman, she was evidently connected in some way to the girl, and so he liked her, also.

 

Added: 18-May-2017
Last Updated: 18-Jun-2022

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 07-Sep-2007
Libivox
Audiobook
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Date Issued:
07-Sep-2007
Format:
Audiobook
Length:
9 hrs 21 min
Internal ID:
1745
Publisher:
ISBN:
Unknown
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Esther - Meta Coordinator
Mark F Smith  - Narration
Mark F Smith - Book Coordinator
From librivox.org:

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. 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.” When older, larger, stronger apes decide that he an undesirable to be killed or expelled from the tribe, it is fortunate that Tarzan has learned the use of primitive weapons.

Although small and weak by ape standards, Tarzan is a human of god-like strength and agility to men who discover him. By studying these people, he gradually decides he is not an ape at all, but human.

And when he meets Jane, a beautiful American girl marooned with her father and friends on the hostile coast of Africa, Tarzan conceives love for her. When they are unexpectedly rescued before Tarzan can find a way to reveal his feelings to Jane, he determines to become civilized and follow her into the world of people – to find her and wed her, though he must cross continents and oceans, and compete with two other suitors for her hand.

This story was the subject of a successful film in 1932, with Tarzan being played by Johnny Weissmuller, who acted in a further eleven Tarzan films. According to Weissmuller in an interview with Mike Douglas, his famous ape-call was audio stitched together from a soprano, an alto, and a hog-caller! Summary by Mark F. Smith.
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Public domain version.
 01-Jan-2014
ePub Books
e-Book
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-2014
Format:
e-Book
Pages*:
341
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Once
Internal ID:
1741
Publisher:
ISBN:
Unknown
Country:
United States
Language:
English
From epubbooks.com:

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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Author(s)

Edgar Rice Burroughs  
Birth: 01 Sep 1875 Chicago, Illinois, USA
Death: 19 Mar 1950 Encino, California, USA

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