Tarzan of the Apes PDF
Preview Tarzan of the Apes
Tarzan of the Apes FML Volume 02 [1] Edgar Rice Burroughs FML Books (1927) Tags:www.freemegalink.com Table of Contents FROM THE PAGES OF TARZAN OF THE APES Title Page Copyright Page EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS THE WORLD OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS AND TARZAN OF THE APES Introduction I - Out to Sea II - The Savage Home III - Life and Death IV - The Apes V - The White Ape VI - Jungle Battles VII - The Light of Knowledge BOY A BOY AND A DOG VIII - The Treetop Hunter IX - Man and Man A is for Archer X - The Fear-Phantom XI - “King of the Apes” XII - Man’s Reason XIII - His Own Kind XIV - At the Mercy of the Jungle XV - The Forest God XVI - “Most Remarkable” XVII - Burials XVIII - The Jungle Toll XIX - The Call of the Primitive XX - Heredity XXI - The Village of Torture XXII - The Search Party XXIII - Brother Men XXI V - Lost Treasure XXV - The Outpost of the World XXVI - The Height of Civilization XXVII - The Giant Again XXVIII - Conclusion ENDNOTES INSPIRED BY TARZAN OF THE APES COMMENTS & QUESTIONS FROM THE PAGES OF TARZAN OF THE APES For a long time no sound broke the deathlike stillness of the jungle midday save the piteous wailing of the tiny man-child. (page 30) And then Tublat went to Kerchak to urge him to use his authority with Kala, and force her to give up little Tarzan, which was the name they had given to the tiny Lord Greystoke, and which meant “White-Skin.” (page 38) From early childhood he had used his hands to swing from branch to branch after the manner of his giant mother, and as he grew older he spent hour upon hour daily speeding through the tree tops with his brothers and sisters. (page 37) As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people. (pages 61— 62) His strange life had left him neither morose nor bloodthirsty. That he joyed in killing, and that he killed with a joyous laugh upon his handsome lips betokened no innate cruelty. He killed for food most often, but, being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death. (page 79) “Tarzan,” he continued, “is not an ape. He is not like his people. His ways are not their ways, and so Tarzan is going back to the lair of his own kind by the waters of the great lake which has no farther shore. You must choose another to rule you, for Tarzan will not return.” (page 101) “What a frightful sound!” cried Jane, “I shudder at the mere thought of it. Do not tell me that a human throat voiced that hideous and fearsome shriek.” (page 127) From the trees Tarzan of the Apes watched the solemn ceremony; but most of all he watched the sweet face and graceful figure of Jane Porter. (page 139) I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. (page 154) When Jane realized that she was being borne away a captive by the strange forest creature who had rescued her from the clutches of the ape she struggled desperately to escape, but the strong arms that held her as easily as though she had been but a day-old babe only pressed a little more tightly. (page 168) “Yes, Miss Porter, they were—cannibals.” (page 192) “I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you—forever.” (page 211) Gradually he became accustomed to the strange noises and the odd ways of civilization, so that presently none might know that two short months before, this handsome Frenchman in immaculate white ducks, who laughed and chatted with the gayest of them, had been swinging naked through primeval forests to pounce upon some unwary victim, which, raw, was to fill his savage belly. (page 222) “My mother was an Ape, and of course she couldn’t tell me much about it. I never knew who my father was.” (page 252) Published by Barnes & Noble Books 122 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011 www.barnesandnoble.com/classics Tarzan of the Apes was first published in 1914. Published in 2006 by Barnes & Noble Classics with new Introduction, Notes, Biography, Chronology, Inspired By, Comments & Questions, and For Further Reading. Introduction, Notes, and For Further Reading Copyright © 2006 by Maura Spiegel. Note on Edgar Rice Burroughs, The World of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Tarzan of the Apes, Inspired by Tarzan of the Apes, and Comments & Questions Copyright © 2006 by Barnes & Noble, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Barnes & Noble Classics and the Barnes & Noble Classics colophon are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Tarzan of the Apes ISBN-13: 978-1-59308-227-7 ISBN-10: 1-59308-227-4 eISBN : 978-1-41143325-0 LC Control Number 2005935858 Produced and published in conjunction with: Fine Creative Media, Inc. 322 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10001 Michael J. Fine, President and Publisher Printed in the United States of America QM 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS When Edgar Rice Burroughs sat down to write his now-legendary Tarzan of the Apes in 1911, he had a young family to support and a string of business failures weighing heavily on his mind. Among other ventures, he had sifted for gold in Idaho, run a stationery store, worked as a railroad policeman, and sold candy, light bulbs, and a snake-oil cure for alcoholism. Nothing led to success, however, and since he had been reduced to pawning some of his possessions for food, it’s reasonable to think that escapism played a role in inspiring his wildly imaginative early tales. Life was not always so financially fraught for Burroughs, who was born into a prosperous Chicago family on September 1, 1875. His father, a former Union Army officer, owned a distillery and then a battery company; his mother raised four sons, of whom Edgar was youngest. Also the most rebellious, he spent one unsuccessful year at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts before being sent to the Michigan Military Academy; there, although he excelled in Greek and Latin, his academic life took second place to writing and drawing for the school newspaper, horseback riding, and playing football. A taste for adventure and dreams of battling Apache warriors in Arizona led Burroughs to join the Army in 1896. But when poor health and boredom set in, he pleaded with his father to get him released from duty. After working for a short time for his father’s company and marrying his childhood sweetheart, Burroughs flailed from one business failure to another before striking it rich with his fictional ape-man. His first Tarzan story, Tarzan of the Apes, was published in 1912 by the pulp- fiction magazine The All-Story. The tale of a man reared by apes in an African jungle caused a sensation among readers of all ages and quickly became a cultural icon. Despite Burroughs’s desire to write more serious fiction, demand for additional Tarzan adventures persisted throughout the author’s life; he created a total of twenty-four Tarzan tales. A secondary market for Tarzan comics, films, radio shows, and the like led Burroughs to create his own corporation, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., to manage the Tarzan empire. At home at Tarzana, his 540-acre estate in California, Burroughs held interviews, rode horses, and wrote. Besides a large number of books, including three science-fiction series (set on Mars, Venus, and in the hollow core of Earth), he also authored many patriotic journal pieces and, after witnessing the bombing
The list of books you might like
