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...
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...
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...
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...
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes AND NOW we have a revisionist Tarzan. Hugh Hudson, the TV-commercial director who rose to cinematic fame with the handsome but hollow Chariots of Fire, is back with Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord...
QUESTION Is there a troop of monkeys living wild in the Florida Everglades, descendants of ones who escaped from the set of ThirtiesTarzan films? FEW people taking a leisurely boat ride along the Silver River in Florida's Ocala National Forest expect to see...
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.
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."
