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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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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is the creator of Tarzan, one of the most popular fictional characters of all time, and John Carter, hero of the Barsoom science fiction series. Burroughs was a prolific author, writing almost 70 books before his death in 1950, and was one of the first authors to popularize a character across multiple media, as he did with Tarzan’s appearance in comic strips, movies, and merchandise. Residing in Hawaii at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, Burroughs was drawn into the Second World War and became one of the oldest war correspondents at the time. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s popularity continues to be memorialized through the community of Tarzana, California, which is named after the ranch he owned in the area, and through the Burrough crater on Mars, which was named in his honour.
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