

The Return of Tarzan
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Narrator: Robert Whitfield
Unabridged: 8 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 04/19/2010
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Narrator: Robert Whitfield
Unabridged: 8 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 04/19/2010
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
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.
"Raised as I have been, I see no worth in man or beast that is not theirs by virtue of their own mental or physical prowess." The book #2 of Tarzan series is felt more like the missing part of the first book rather than a new journey. Don't get me wrong, because first one was amazing and one will not......more
At the end of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s “Tarzan of the Apes”, Tarzan (a.k.a. Lord Greystoke) arrived in America to see the woman he loves, Jane Porter, engaged to marry another, a man who claimed a title that Tarzan, by all rights, should have claimed. Dejected, Tarzan returns to Paris, melancholy but......more
I have always loved The Return of Tarzan almost as much as I love Tarzan of the Apes. Although the first novel of every series is usually the best, the second novel of this series has always been my favorite because the love story is resolved in this book. For that reason, and for all the others inv......more
As I read this book over the last few weeks, I remembered and recognized more and more parts of it --finally, including the ending-- and realized that I'd read it before as a kid. (Evidently, I did so after reading part of it at a friend's house; but had forgotten the title of what I'd read there, a......more
Essentially, this is the second half of Tarzan's origin story. At the end of Tarzan of the Apes, after rescuing Jane Porter from a forest fire in backwoods Wisconsin, Tarzan had concealed his identity as John Clayton, the true Lord Greystoke, so as not to interfere with Jane's professed intention to......more