Tarzan of the Apes is a 1912 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the first in the Tarzan series. The story was first printed in the pulp magazine The All-Story in October 1912 before be
Dust-jacket illustration of Tarzan of the Apes.
Tarzan is a fictional character, a feral child raised in one of the Congolian rainforests by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a he
Tarzan of the Apes
…first printed in the pulp magazine The All-Story in October 1912 before being released as a novel in June 1914. The story follows the title character Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society. So popular was…
Illustration by James Allen St. John for Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Tarzan in a display at an Ankara amusement park
Tarzan's agility, speed, and strength allow him to kill a leopard in 1921's The Adventures of Tarzan.