Using basic primers with pictures, over many years he teaches himself to read English, but having never heard it, cannot speak it. The infant is then adopted by the she-ape Kala.Ĭlayton is named "Tarzan" ("White Skin" in the ape language) and raised in ignorance of his human heritage.Īs a boy, feeling alienated from his peers due to their physical differences, he discovers his true parents' cabin, where he first learns of others like himself in their books. When he is one year old his mother dies, and soon thereafter his father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak. Some time later, their son John Clayton II is born. John and Alice (Rutherford) Clayton, Viscount and Lady Greystoke from England, are marooned in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa in 1888. Scholars have noted several important themes in the novel: the impact of heredity on behavior racial superiority civilization, especially as Tarzan struggles with his identity as a human sexuality and escapism.
In April 2012, the novel's centennial anniversary, the Library of America published a hardcover edition based on Burroughs' original book, with an introduction by Thomas Mallon.( ISBN 978-1-59853-164-0).
TARZAN BOOK SERIES
So popular was the character that Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with two dozen sequels. The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society. It was first published in the pulp magazine The All-Story in October 1912 before being released Tarzan of the Apes is a 1912 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan.
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