The Son of Tarzan, with eBook, Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Son of Tarzan, with eBook, Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The Son of Tarzan, with eBook

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Series: Tarzan #4

Narrator: Shelly Frasier

Unabridged: 9 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/23/2009

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In this sequel to The Beasts of Tarzan, the Lord of the Apes' old nemesis, Alexis Paulvitch, lures Tarzan's son, Jack, to Africa, where he plans to kill him. His plan is foiled when Jack escapes with the help of Akut, the great ape. The pair flee to the jungle where Tarzan was raised a generation earlier, and Jack establishes his own reputation among the apes as Korak the Killer. He also rescues Meriem, a beautiful young woman, from a band of Arab raiders. She turns out to be the daughter of Armand Jacot, the Prince de Cadrenet, and is therefore a fitting mate for the son of Lord Greystoke.

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 July 27, 2024

Opening scene: A small boat is floating leisurely on a stream in West Africa the crew of the vessel ...but first the name of the waterway, the Ugambi River , ( sorry friends not spelled right in book) to continue are understandably tired, after struggling hard going up, the long journey seemed perpe......more

Goodreads review by A.E. on December 18, 2024

This is an enjoyable, fast-paced series, but book four almost wrecked it for me. Tarzan is raised by a “ferocious” gorilla, but still has a moral code to only kill when needed. His son Jack - who is raised in London and knows nothing about Tarzan’s past until he is ten and runs away to the jungle -......more

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on May 17, 2024

The Son of Tarzan is the fourth book in the ERB series of Tarzan novels and is really quite good for a sequel. It was published in novel form in 1917 by A. C. McClurg & Co. (who would publish the first ten of the Tarzan books). I would give a caveat here that Burroughs wrote escapist fiction with an......more

Goodreads review by Tharindu on May 02, 2020

" The symptoms of happiness and anger are often similar " Fourth book of the series brings an entirely different narrative. There are many similarities with the first installment yet, there are many differences too. And I have to special credit to the author, yet again, for another astonishing ending.......more

Goodreads review by Quentin on April 08, 2015

This one was a mixed bag. All of the Tarzan books require some suspension of disbelief, but this one kept pushing it. I have a feeling if a child was really tossed into the jungle, they would more than likely die pretty quickly. In these books, they instead learn how to talk with all of the animals......more