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

Narrator: Ronald Bruce Meyer

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/22/2023


Synopsis

An adventure tale that has capture the ages!
The first book in the legendary Tarzan series tells the story of John Clayton, born in the coastal jungles of Africa to a marooned couple from England, adopted as an infant by apes after they die, then raised in ignorance of his human heritage.
Through sheer force of will Tarzan becomes king of the jungle and slowly learns of his origin.
This is the exciting novel that began it all.

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 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 Melindam on May 15, 2025

I first read Tarzan of the Apes in my early teens and was thoroughly captivated—both by this book and the rest of the series that had been translated into Hungarian at the time. Back then, my undifferentiating teenage self would have rated it at least 4 stars. I found the books entertaining and genu......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