Dec 22, 2009
The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Burroughs, Edgar
Rice
(
1875
–
1950
),
American
novelist and writer of
science fiction
, remembered principally for his adventure stories about Tarzan, who first appeared in Tarzan of the Apes (
1914
) and who rapidly gained popularity as hero of many sequels, films, radio programmes, and comic strips. Tarzan is the son of a British aristocrat, abandoned in the jungle as a baby and reared by apes.
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