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Tarzan of the Apes

By Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Cover: The Dream (Le Rêve) (1910), oil on canvas by Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1910)

Tarzan of the Apes is a 1912 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the first in the Tarzan series. The story was first printed in the pulp magazine The All-Story in October 1912 before being released as a novel in June 1914. The story follows the title character Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society. So popular was the character that Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with two dozen sequels.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Out to Sea
  2. 2: The Savage Home
  3. 3: Life and Death
  4. 4: The Apes
  5. 5: The White Ape
  6. 6: Jungle Battles
  7. 7: The Light of Knowledge
  8. 8: The Tree-top Hunter
  9. 9: Man and Man
  10. 10: The Fear-Phantom
  11. 11: “King of the Apes”
  12. 12: Man’s Reason
  13. 13: His Own Kind
  14. 14: At the Mercy of the Jungle
  15. 15: The Forest God
  16. 16: “Most Remarkable”
  17. 17: Burials
  18. 18: The Jungle Toll
  19. 19: The Call of the Primitive
  20. 20: Heredity
  21. 21: The Village of Torture
  22. 22: The Search Party
  23. 23: Brother Men
  24. 24: Lost Treasure
  25. 25: The Outpost of the World
  26. 26: The Height of Civilization
  27. 27: The Giant Again
  28. 28: Conclusion