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Follow Tarzan, the king of the jungle, as he grows from an uncivilised ape man to a distinguished gentleman. This collection features the first three pulp fiction volumes in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 24-book series.

When he’s just a baby, Tarzan is abandoned in the depths of the African jungle. The small orphan boy is soon discovered and rescued by a caring female ape, who raises him as her own. Tarzan thrives among the apes, using his father’s old knife to overcome the vicious beasts lurking in the wild. But despite being the king of the jungle, Tarzan feels as though he doesn’t belong in the wilderness. When a group of marooned humans come across the ape man, he finally discovers his true identity.

Join Tarzan on his journey as he conquers the jungle and then learns how to survive in upper-class western society. Will he ever find a place he can truly call home?

Featured in this collection are the first three volumes in the Tarzan series:

Tarzan of the Apes

The Return of Tarzan

The Beasts of Tarzan

First published in serial form between 1912 and 1914, The Tarzan Series is a fantasy story, perfect for young adults and those who want to rediscover a childhood classic.

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Publié par	Read Books Ltd.
Date de parution	26 septembre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781528798440
Langue	English
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THE TAR ZAN SERIES
THREE VOLUMES IN ONE
TARZAN OF THE APES, THE RETURN OF TARZAN, & THE BEASTS OF TARZAN
By
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

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Contents
Edgar Rice Burroughs
TARZAN OF THE APES
CHAPTER I OUT TO SEA
CHAPTER II THE S AVAGE HOME
CHAPTER III LIFE AND DEATH
CHAPTER I V THE APES
CHAPTER V THE WHITE APE
CHAPTER VI JUNG LE BATTLES
CHAPTER VII THE LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE
CHAPTER VIII THE TREE- TOP HUNTER
CHAPTER IX M AN AND MAN
CHAPTER X THE FE AR-PHANTOM
CHAPTER XI “KING OF THE APES”
CHAPTER XII MA N’S REASON
CHAPTER XIII HI S OWN KIND
CHAPTER XIV AT THE MERCY OF THE JUNGLE
CHAPTER XV THE FOREST GOD
CHAPTER XVI “MOST R EMARKABLE”
CHAPTER XV II BURIALS
CHAPTER XVIII THE J UNGLE TOLL
CHAPTER XIX THE CALL OF THE PRIMITIVE
CHAPTER X X HEREDITY
CHAPTER XXI THE VILLAGE OF TORTURE
CHAPTER XXII THE SE ARCH PARTY
CHAPTER XXIII B ROTHER MEN
CHAPTER XXIV LOS T TREASURE
CHAPTER XXV THE OUTPOST OF THE WORLD
CHAPTER XXVI THE HEIGHT OF CI VILIZATION
CHAPTER XXVII THE G IANT AGAIN
CHAPTER XXVIII CONCLUSION
THE RETURN OF TARZAN
CHAPTER I THE AFFAIR ON THE LINER
CHAPTER II FORGING BONDS OF HA TE AND ——?
CHAPTER III WHAT HAPPENED IN THE RUE MAULE
CHAPTER IV THE COUNTES S EXPLAINS
CHAPTER V THE PLOT T HAT FAILED
CHAPTER VI A DUEL
CHAPTER VII THE DANCING GIRL OF SIDI AISSA
CHAPTER VIII THE FIGHT IN THE DESERT
CHAPTER IX NUMA “EL ADREA”
CHAPTER X THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
CHAPTER XI JOHN CALDWE LL, LONDON
CHAPTER XII SHIPS THAT PASS
CHAPTER XIII THE WRECK OF THE “L ADY ALICE”
CHAPTER XIV BACK TO THE PRIMITIVE
CHAPTER XV FROM APE TO SAVAGE
CHAPTER XVI THE IVO RY RAIDERS
CHAPTER XVII THE WHITE CHIEF OF THE WAZIRI
CHAPTER XVIII THE LOTTER Y OF DEATH
CHAPTER XIX THE CI TY OF GOLD
CHA PTER XX LA
CHAPTER XXI THE CASTAWAYS
CHAPTER XXII THE TREASURE VAUL TS OF OPAR
CHAPTER XXIII THE FIFTY FRI GHTFUL MEN
CHAPTER XXIV HOW TARZAN CAME AGA IN TO OPAR
CHAPTER XXV THROUGH THE FORES T PRIMEVAL
CHAPTER XXVI THE PASSING OF T HE APE-MAN
THE BEASTS OF TARZAN
CHAPTER I KIDNAPPED
CHAPTER I I MAROONED
CHAPTER III BEA STS AT BAY
CHAPTER IV SHEETA
CHAPTER V MUGAMBI
CHAPTER VI A HI DEOUS CREW
CHAPTER VI I BETRAYED
CHAPTER VIII THE DANC E OF DEATH
CHAPTER IX CHIVALRY O R VILLAINY
CHAPTER X THE SWEDE
CHAPTER X I TAMBUDZA
CHAPTER XII A BLACK SCOUNDREL
CHAPTER X III ESCAPE
CHAPTER XIV ALONE IN THE JUNGLE
CHAPTER XV DOWN THE UGAMBI
CHAPTER XVI IN THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XVII ON THE DECK OF THE “KINCAID”
CHAPTER XVIII PAULVITCH PLO TS REVENGE
CHAPTER XIX THE LAST OF THE “KINCAID”
CHAPTER XX JUNGLE IS LAND AGAIN
CHAPTER XXI THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE

Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago in 1875. His father, a Civil War veteran, sent him to Michigan Military Academy in his youth, but in 1895 Burroughs failed the entrance exam for the US army, and was then discharged from the military altogether in 1897 having been diagnosed with a heart problem. Following this, Burroughs worked in a range of unrelated short-term jobs, such as railroad policeman, business partner, and miner. In 1911, having worked for seven years on menial wages, and having taken an interest in the pulp magazines of the day, Burroughs began to write fiction. Some years later, he recalled thinking that “although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those m agazines.”
Only a year later, Burroughs' story 'Under the Moons of Mars' was serialized in All-Story Magazine, earning him $400 (approximately twenty times that by modern-day economic standards). This money enabled Burroughs to start writing full-time and in the same year (1912), he published his successful and most well-known work – Tarzan of the Apes. Tarzan was a national sensation, and Burroughs showed an entrepreneurial streak when he exploited it in a range of different ways, from comics to movies to merchandise. By 1923, Burroughs had founded his own company – Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. – and printed his own books throughout the rest of his life.
During World War II, as a resident of Hawaii at the time of the Pearl Harbour attack, Burroughs became one of the oldest war correspondents in the US. After the war, Burroughs moved back to California, where he eventually died of a heart attack, leaving behind more than sixty novels. The figure of Tarzan remains immensely popular, and today the original 1912 novel has almost innumerable sequels across all forms of media.

Bookplate designed for Edgar Rice Burroughs by his nephew, Studley Oldham Burroughs, in 1922.

1922 letter between Edgar Rice Burroughs and Ruthven Deane that describes the details of the bookplate's design and their relevance.

TARZAN O F THE APES
First published in 1912

CHAPTER I
OUT TO SEA
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the str ange tale.
When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative.
I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have taken fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it ma y be true.
The yellow, mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead, and the records of the Colonial Office dovetail perfectly with the narrative of my convivial host, and so I give you the story as I painstakingly pieced it out from these several various agencies.
If you do not find it credible you will at least be as one with me in acknowledging that it is unique, remarkable, and in teresting.
From the records of the Colonial Office and from the dead man’s diary we learn that a certain young English nobleman, whom we shall call John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, was commissioned to make a peculiarly delicate investigation of conditions in a British West Coast African Colony from whose simple native inhabitants another European power was known to be recruiting soldiers for its native army, which it used solely for the forcible collection of rubber and ivory from the savage tribes along the Congo and the Aruwimi. The natives of the British Colony complained that many of their young men were enticed away through the medium of fair and glowing promises, but that few if any ever returned to their families.
The Englishmen in Africa went even further, saying that these poor blacks were held in virtual slavery, since after their terms of enlistment expired their ignorance was imposed upon by their white officers, and they were told that they had yet several years to serve.
And so the Colonial Office appointed John Clayton to a new post in British West Africa, but his confidential instructions centered on a thorough investigation of the unfair treatment of black British subjects by the officers of a friendly European power. Why he was sent, is, however, of little moment to this story, for he never made an investigation, nor, in fact, did he ever reach his de stination.
Clayton was the type of Englishman that one likes best to associate with the noblest monuments of historic achievement upon a thousand victorious battlefields—a strong, virile man—mentally, morally, and p hysically.
In stature he was above the average height; his eyes were gray, his features regular and strong; his carriage that of perfect, robust health influenced by his years of army training.
Political ambition had caused him to seek transference from the army to the Colonial Office and so we find him, still young, entrusted with a delicate and important commission in the service of the Queen.
When he received this appointment he was both elated and appalled. The preferment seemed to him in the nature of a well-merited reward for painstaking and intelligent service, and as a stepping stone to posts of greater importance and responsibility; but, on the other hand, he had been married to the Hon. Alice Rutherford for scarce a three months, and it was the thought of taking this fair young girl into the dangers and isolation of tropical Africa that app alled him.
For her sake he would have refused the appointment, but she would not have it so. Instead she insisted that he accept, and, indeed, take her with him.
There were mothers and brothers and sisters, and aunts and cousins to express various opinions on the subject, but as to what they severally advised history is silent.
We know only that on a br