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