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Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950.
American author born in Chicago, Illinois. Firmly rooted in pulp fiction, he specialized in
proto-science fictional planetary romances and lost race yarns. His novels usually saw magazine
serialization a year or more before they were issued in book form; dates given below are of
first book publication. Other than the Tarzan books, his Martian novels are his best-known works.
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Tarzan of the Apes. 1914.
Archetypical story of a man raised by animals, and his efforts to reclaim his heritage. The
book ends with him halfway there, and is best read in conjunction with Jungle Tales of Tarzan,
which explores his youth in more detail, and The Return of Tarzan, which brings the story begun
in the first book to a satisfactory resolution. Burroughs' Tarzan is both better and worse than the
myriad movie versions; he possesses a power and dignity they lack, but his Africa abounds in fictional
species and improbable settings, and if you read very far into the series his adventures grow formulaic.
Followed by sequels,
The Return of Tarzan (1915),
The Beasts of Tarzan (1916),
The Son of Tarzan (1917),
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1918),
Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1920),
Tarzan the Untamed (1920),
Tarzan the Terrible (1921),
Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1923),
Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924),
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1928),
Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1929),
Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1930),
Tarzan the Invincible (1931),
Tarzan Triumphant (1932),
Tarzan and the City of Gold (1933),
Tarzan and the Lion Man (1934),
Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1935),
Tarzan's Quest (1936),
Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938),
Tarzan the Magnificent (1939),
Tarzan and "the Foreign Legion" (1947),
Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins (1963),
Tarzan and the Madman (1964),
Tarzan and the Castaways (1965), and
Tarzan: the Lost Adventure (completed by Joe R. Lansdale) (1995).
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Posted
Jul. 8, 2005,
and last updated
Jul. 10, 2013.
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