Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Tarzan of the Apes

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dove Audio

Narrator: Sir Ben Kingsley

Abridged: 3 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/07/2017

Synopsis

This classic tale of Tarzan, the young English boy in the deepest African jungle, is one of imagination, adventure, and ultimate action. Raised by apes, he learns to speak to the animals, swing through the jungle, and survive happily as one of their own. Only when he meets a group of British tourists on safari does his world change completely. His first encounter with humans, and Jane especially, turns his known life upside down. This Edgar Rice Burroughs classic tale beckons readers to escape their own world and visit a savage and untamed wilderness.

About Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950), born in Chicago, was educated at Michigan Military Academy and served briefly in the US Cavalry. He began writing while working as a pencil-sharpener salesman, publishing his first piece in 1912 to great success. He authored numerous science fiction and fantasy series but is most famous for his Tarzan books; the suburb of Los Angeles where he lived eventually became known as Tarzana.

About Sir Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley is a distinguished veteran of stage and screen. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his starring role in Ghandi, and has starred in other memorable films, such as Bugsy, Sneakers, and Schindler’s List.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on March 13, 2024

Viscount Greystoke will see you now.One of the advantages of riding the subway to work is getting extra reading time. Coming home, though, I often have to stand for a good while before I can get a seat. As it is not comfortable wrangling the actual book I am reading at a given time while standi......more

Goodreads review by Anne on February 09, 2025

I don't know about you, but when I think of Tarzan, I see that classic image of him swinging through the trees and hear that crazy yodel-scream thing he did. I've seen multiple movies but I've never read the real stories, so I thought it was high time to remedy that. Truthfully, Burroughs' classic did......more

Goodreads review by J.G. Keely on January 24, 2009

I must say, I was expecting more from this book. It takes inspiration from a wide array of very good adventure novels, but manages to be more bigoted than the colonial literature that inspired it and less factual and forward-looking than books written thirty years before. One of the major inspiration......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on October 07, 2019

Here: the fountainhead & the story buried below a myriad adaptations. E. R. Burroughs's dream did come true after all: his Tarzan spun off into countless later tales & films-- heck, even Broadway musicals. Read this scant but brutal adventure tale with its due respect, for it includes: examples of p......more

Goodreads review by Melindam on December 17, 2024

I have read this book first in my early teens and was really taken with it as well as the other books of the series that were translated into Hungarian back then. My original, undistinguishing rating would have been 4 stars at least, I am sure, as I found the books entertaining and quite fascinating......more

Quotes

“The Tarzan legend returns us to that Eden where, free of clothes and the inhibitions of an opressive society, a man is able, as William Faulkner put it…to prevail as well as endure.”
Gore Vidal

“Burroughs’ tale of the Noble Savage remains the stuff of daydreams.”
Los Angeles Times

“Burroughs is a masterful storyteller, and his story is wonderfully suited to an audio presentation…Slattery has a good understanding of the pacing of this exciting tale and his performance is enjoyable.”
Kliatt

“Burroughs created one of the few heroes everyone knows, and at that desk, he took Tarzan to exotic lands, had him face bizarre creatures and endless, exotic challenges. Those adventures spirit the reader away to a timeless time of action and heroism. And sitting in that office, I was a permanent convert. For me, and for countless others, the legend will never cease. And that’s as it should be.”
Steve Saffel, senior acquisitions editor, Titan Books

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