Tarzan Jungle Tales, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan Jungle Tales, Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Tarzan Jungle Tales

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Series: Tarzan #6

Narrator: David Sharp

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2011

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Here are a dozen action-packed interlinked jungle stories illustrating the early life of Tarzan of the Apes. The stories included are: 1. TARZANS FIRST LOVE 2. THE CAPTURE OF TARZAN 3. THE FIGHT FOR BALU 4. THE GOD OF TARZAN 5. TARZAN AND THE BLACK

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 Chris on October 07, 2024

A set of short Tarzan stories from his days among the apes, before he met anybody from the western world or knew his heritage. Tarzan is a killing machine as usual, a trickster, and endlessly curious to understand the world and his place. Burroughs skill in describing Tarzan’s introspective side is......more

Goodreads review by Tharindu on May 06, 2020

"Tantor," he said, "it is good to be alive. It is good to lie in the cool shadows. It is good to look upon the green trees and the bright colors of the flowers" Jungle Tales of Tarzan, the sixth of the series, takes you back to his childhood days, and describes some of the experiences he had before e......more

Goodreads review by Chris on July 15, 2021

Months ago I decided to revisit the novel that started me on my path to becoming a fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs--Tarzan and the Golden Lion; it'd been many years since I'd visited the ape-man in his jungle haunts. After finishing reading Golden Lion I was encouraged to reread my favorite novel of the......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on January 25, 2022

This one was ... um ... So apparently, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar underperformed when it was first published, and for that reason (and also because he was dealing with physiological issues from spending too much time hunched over his typewriter), instead of contracting for a single novel, Burrough......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on January 27, 2018

This is a collection of loosely-connected short stories in the life of Tarzan while he was still growing into young adulthood. Events in some stories are mentioned in later stories so it is best to read them all in order. The entirety of the twelve stories actually fit chronologically within chapter......more