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Get set for rollicking adventure with this volume from Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs. If your only exposure to the King of the Jungle has been the watered-down cartoon versions, you'll be pleasantly surprised by the depth and nuance that Burroughs conveys in the character..
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Burroughs had become a more sophisticated writer by the time he wrote "Jungle Tales of Tarzan". He had also realized that his readers would really enjoy more tales of the youthful Tarzan, growing up, surviving his youth among the tribe of anthropoid apes, and generally having adventures before his encounter with civilization.
Tarzan is so much cooler than Conan the Cimmerian!
I listened to the narration from LibriVox, and it was quite as good as the work of some professional narrators.
Burroughs makes a bunch of cynical remarks about religion. At the same time, Tarzan searches for god, and is found to have some sort of moral impulses. How are we supposed to interpret it?
One tale, in which Tarzan hallucinates is good fun, at the end Tarzan show more is permanently unsure what is real and what is not, and so are we? show less
Tarzan is so much cooler than Conan the Cimmerian!
I listened to the narration from LibriVox, and it was quite as good as the work of some professional narrators.
Burroughs makes a bunch of cynical remarks about religion. At the same time, Tarzan searches for god, and is found to have some sort of moral impulses. How are we supposed to interpret it?
One tale, in which Tarzan hallucinates is good fun, at the end Tarzan show more is permanently unsure what is real and what is not, and so are we? show less
Different from his novels, but interesting look at Tarzan's thought processes as he tries to figure out the world with no help.
Really liked this book. It gives a detailed view of Tarzan on a more personal level. Great read.
A 'prequel" to the Tarzan tales, in which Tarzan's jungle adventures before his first meeting with white men are documented. Entertaining short stories which help illuminate the developing character of the ape-man.
http://fireandsword.blogspot.com/2006/12/jungle-tales-of-tarzan-by-edgar-rice.ht...
Everybody’s favorite jungle boy wasn’t always an elegant English earl. In fact, in his younger days he was pretty much a wild man, frankly he was a real animal. I suppose that’s how it is when you live with a bunch of apes.
Everybody’s favorite jungle boy wasn’t always an elegant English earl. In fact, in his younger days he was pretty much a wild man, frankly he was a real animal. I suppose that’s how it is when you live with a bunch of apes.
A collection of short stories.
The young Tarzan was unlike the great apes who were his only companions and playmates. Theirs was a simple, savage life, filled with little but killing or being killed. But Tarzan had all of a normal boy's desire to learn. He had painfully taught himself to read from books left by his dead father. Now he sought to apply this book knowledge to the world around him. He sought for such things as the source of dreams and the whereabouts of God. And he searched for the love and affection that every human being needs. But he was alone in his struggles to grow and understand.The life of the jungle lord had no room for abstractions.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875, in Chicago. His father, George Tyler was a distiller and a battery manufacturer. Early in life Burroughs attempted to support his family in a variety of occupations, including railroad policeman, business partner, and miner. None of these proved successful. However, Burroughs had always enjoyed show more reading adventure fiction and decided to try his hand at writing. His first attempt, written under the pseudonym Normal Bean, sold very quickly and Burroughs' career took off. Although critics and educators have not always been supportive of Burroughs' writing, the characters in his stories have entertained readers for many years. Tarzan was the most popular, earning Burroughs enough money to start his own publishing house and a motion picture company. Another character, John Carter, is the hero of Burroughs' Mars adventure series. The continuing popularity of these characters has led some critics to reconsider the value of Burroughs' writing and to acknowledge significant themes in his stories. Burroughs died on March 19, 1950. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Tarzan dzsungeltörténetei
- Original title
- Jungle Tales of Tarzan
- Original publication date
- 1919; 1916-09; 1919-03-29; 1963-07; 1963-11
- People/Characters
- Tarzan; Bukawai
- Important places
- West Africa
- First words
- Teeka, stretched at such luxurious ease in the shade of the tropical forest, presented, unquestionably, a most alluring picture of young, feminine loveliness.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In all the tribe there was but one who was at all skeptical about the plausibility of Tarzan's remarkable rescue of Goro, and that one, strange as it may seem, was Tarzan of the Apes.
- Original language*
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.52
- Canonical LCC
- PS3503.U687
- Disambiguation notice
- Chronologically, the events in these 12 short stories take place between chapters 12 & 13 of "Tarzan of the Apes." It is the 6th book on order of publication.
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