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Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Tarzan of the Apes eBook
75,333 words, approx. 251 pages
The complete online text of Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.


Author Biography

Name: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Birth Date: September 1, 1875
Death Date: March 19, 1950
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Place of Death: Encino, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, businessman

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Biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs
9291 words, approx. 31 pages
On December 1, 1911, at about eight o'clock in the evening, a thirty-six-year-old man picked up a pen and began to write a story. This man had lived out almost half his life and was, by his own standards, a failure. He had tried many different occupation...
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Biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs
2680 words, approx. 8.9 pages
It is probably not surprising that a man nearly forty years of age, with a wife and children to support but no real taste for the pedestrian routines of business, should dream of being carried away to another planet or of being born in the jungle, free o...
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Biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American adventure writer whose Tarzan stories created a folk hero known around the world. His novels sold more than 100 million copies in 56 languages, making him one of the most widely read authors of the twentie...


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Tarzan of the Apes Information
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Tarzan of the Apes is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine in October, 1912; the first book edition was published in...


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Racist Allegory in "Tarzan of the Apes"
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In "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan's journey is an allegory of man's rise in evolution from apes to blacks to lower-class whites to higher-class white male Europeans.
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Tarzan, King of the Apes
572 words, approx. 2 pages
An overview of Edgar Rice Burroughs' of Tarzan in his book Tarzan of the Apes. Tarzan's possession of both the strengths of the apes and the knowledge of man earned him the title "King of the Apes."


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