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Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke
An SF Gateway eBook: bringing the classics to the future.
Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). In this biography Philip Jose Farmer pieces together the life of this fantastic man, correcting Burroughs's errors and deliberate deceptions and tracing Tarzan's family tree back to other extraordinary figures, including Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Doc Savage, Nero Wolfe, and Bulldog Drummond.
Tarzan Alive offers the first chronological account of Tarzan's life, narrated in careful detail garnered from Burroughs's stories and other sources. From the ill-fated voyage that led to Greystoke's birth on the isolated African coast to his final adventures as a group captain in the RAF during World War II, Farmer constructs a comprehensive and authoritative account. Farmer's assertion that Tarzan was a real person has led him to craft a biography as well res
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When Tarzan, the Ape Man opened 40 years ago this week, it was widely regarded as perhaps the worst adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs character. Burroughs himself began writing as a profession 110 years ago, and it wasn’t long before he introduced his two most famous characters, John Carter and Tarzan. While Burroughs’s racial and eugenicist views have received more examination and repudiation as the years have gone by, the strong adventure core of his stories has kept them popular. Tarzan in particular emerged to be one of the most famous characters in fiction, with an incredible number of adaptations over the decades. Here’s a look at the legend of the Lord of the Apes.
Born in 1875 in Chicago, Burroughs grew up to enlist in the 7th U.S. Cavalry, but was discharged in 1897 after being diagnosed with a heart condition. Burroughs held a number of jobs working ranches, prospecting for gold, and selling pencil sharpeners. After reading a number of stories in pulp magazines, Burroughs felt like
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Tarzan of the Apes
1912 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs
For other uses, see Tarzan of the Apes (disambiguation).
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 magazineThe All-Story in October 1912 before being released as a novel in June 1914.[1]
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 the character that Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with two dozen sequels.[2]
Scholars have noted several important themes in the novel: the impact of heredity on behavior; racial superiority; civilization, especially as Tarzan struggles with his identity as a human; sexuality; and escapism.[citation needed]
In April 2012, in advance of the novel's centennial anniversary, the Library of America published a hardcover edition based on Burroughs' original novel, with an introduction by Thom
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