Tarzan of the Apes (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- First Published: 1912
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: 1888
- Setting: Northwest Africa, Baltimore, and Wisconsin
- Principal Characters: John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, Alice, Tarzan, Kala, Kerchak, Terkoz, Jane Porter, Professor Archimedes Q. Porter, Samuel T. Philander, William Cecil Clayton, Lieutenant Paul d’Arnot, Robert Canler
- Genres: Long fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Class conflict, Love or romance, Nature, Friendship, Jungles or rain forests, Orphans or orphanages, Morality or morals, Animals, Apes
- Locales: Africa, Baltimore, MD, Wisconsin
The Novel
Tarzan of the Apes was the first of twenty-four Tarzan novels that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote over the course of three decades. Most of this introductory novel describes Tarzan’s upbringing in a tribe of African apes and his self-education in written English, but it ends by telling a little of his entry into the world of civilized humankind.
The novel begins with a storyteller’s disclaimer about having gotten the story from an unspecified man who had Colonial Office records to verify the tale. Burroughs then turns to third-person narration, first...
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