Tarzan of the Apes (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
At a glance:
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- First Published: 1912
- Type of Work: Novels
- 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 Work
The author of more than seventy novels, Burroughs is best known for his books about Tarzan, a white man who lives in the jungles of equatorial Africa. Tarzan of the Apes (1912), the first novel in the series, begins the tale of a white child reared by an imaginary species of “great apes” after his marooned parents die. He learns the law of the jungle from animals and has almost no contact with other human beings until a party of Europeans enters his domain. From them he learns the ways of humankind, and he marries the Englishwoman Jane Porter. Thereafter he...
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Edgar Rice Burroughs (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Edgar Rice Burroughs (Dictionary of World Biography)
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