Preview of Tarzan Alive Summary:

Burroughs (1875-1950) wrote serviceable prose at best, but what he lacked in style, he more than compensated for in sheer invention. He possessed a powerful and vivid imagination, and with it, he created the fantasy of a primitive being concealed inside ourselves: an absolutely good hero dominating a world of savagery and beauty.

Moreover, Burroughs also had a coherent vision of life. Like most mythic literature, his Tarzan books are about what a...