Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, with e..., Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, with e..., Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, with eBook

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Series: Tarzan #5

Narrator: Shelly Frasier

Unabridged: 7 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/14/2009

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Edgar Rice Burroughs is the creator of one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture: Tarzan of the Apes. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is the fifth book in the Tarzan series and considered by many to be one of the best.

In one of his earlier adventures, Tarzan visited the mysterious, ruinous city of Opar that dated back to Atlantean times and was now inhabited by a strange horde of bloodthirsty, apelike priests headed by La, the High Priestess of the Flaming God. Thence, he brought back very little of the great store of ingoted gold hidden deep in a hill, and was rich for life.

In the current adventure, Tarzan returns to the gold-mining city of Opar to contend with greedy villains and the amorous attentions of the High Priestess. But the priests who work for her have other ideas—they don't intend to let Tarzan escape their sacrificial knives a second time.

About Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1875, to a prosperous family. His father was a civil war veteran. Burroughs attended several private schools, concluding with the Michigan Military Academy at Orchar Lake. Here he later became an instructor and assistant commandant. During the First World War, he served in the Seventh Cavalry and Illinois Reserve Militia, and in 1900 he married Emma Centennia Hulbert, with whom he had two sons and one daughter. Burroughs tried his luck at several different occupations, including railroad policeman, advertising agency partner, and office manager, none of which were successful, and the family lived near poverty.

The turning point came when Burroughs started to write for pulp fiction magazines at the age of thirty-five. In 1912, Burroughs's first true success came with the publication of Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars in All-Story Magazine, which introduced his popular, invincible hero of Mars, John Carter. The Martian series eventually reached eleven books. Later that same year, Burroughs wrote his best-known book, Tarzan of the Apes. This was the start of his longest and most successful series, which eventually reached twenty-four books. Other popular stories from Burroughs's pen include the Carson of Venus books, the Pellucidar tales, and The Land That Time Forgot, a total of some sixty-eight titles.

In 1913, Burroughs founded his own publishing house, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., which still publishes his works today. Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises and Burroughs-Tarzan Pictures were founded in 1934. Burroughs also found time to dabble in politics and was elected mayor of California Beach in 1933. During World War II, at the age of 66, he served as a war correspondent in the South Pacific and wrote columns for the Honolulu Advertiser. Burroughs died of a heart ailment on March 19, 1950.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Henry on September 01, 2024

Tarzan like many of us today needs a little cash his businesses in England are.. .Let's say the cash flow is not in balance with the expenses just a minor temporary difficulty no problem. The ape man knows where to get a ton of gold the lost city of Opar. He has been inside the hidden citadel before......more

Goodreads review by Tharindu on May 03, 2020

"Tarzan always came back to Nature in the spirit of a lover keeping a long deferred tryst after a period behind prison walls." For the first time, this book starts with very little connection to the ones before except for the city of opar part. Story is entertaining as ever but some of the hardships......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on December 31, 2020

I think a case could be made that this is the first of the Tarzan series novels. Obviously it's not the first Tarzan novel -- it has that #5 right there in the title -- but the first 2-3 books were the extended origin story, #4 was a generational shift (and, for the record, at no point whatsoever in......more

Goodreads review by Seth on October 20, 2012

This is it. This is where the Tarzan series really gets going, for me. I guess for some Graystoke purists, this is probably the demise of Tarzan as a "serious work" because it basically becomes nonsense dime novel fiction from this point on, but to me, that's ERB at his best. This book has everything......more

Goodreads review by Chris on June 10, 2024

You might not know that apes are masters of disguise. I didn’t believe it either, but this phenomenon is proven to be true in the pages of this book. You see, ape friends of Tarzan’s spend some time clothed in their Arab adversaries’ clothing so they can sneak in and out of the Arab camp. Now maybe......more