Tarzan Collection (Annotated)

Thirteen Novels | Classic American Literature | Edgar Rice Burroughs | Erato Press

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

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TÍTULO

Tarzan: The Original Series (Annotated)

SUBTÍTULO

Novels 1–13 Classic American Literature Edgar Rice Burroughs Erato Press

DESCRIÇÃO

This annotated edition of the Tarzan series includes:

• The original thirteen novels, complete and unabridged (1914–1930)
• Original literary analysis of the complete Tarzan series
• Critical essay on empire, race, and colonialism in Burroughs
• Full author biography by Henry Bugalho, Fellow of the RSA

Before Hollywood invented the jungle hero, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote him. This is where it began.

Between 1914 and 1930, Burroughs published thirteen Tarzan novels that sold in the millions, were translated into dozens of languages, and created one of the most recognizable characters in the history of popular fiction. He was not writing literature, he said. He was writing for money. He was wrong on both counts — and this edition exists to prove it.

Tarzan of the Apes — An English nobleman's infant son is raised by great apes in the African jungle. What returns to civilization is something neither savage nor gentleman — something new.

The Return of Tarzan / The Beasts of Tarzan / The Son of Tarzan — Paris, London, the Congo. Tarzan moves between worlds he never fully belongs to. Each return to Africa costs him something he cannot name.

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar / Jungle Tales of Tarzan — The lost city of Opar, the priestess La, gold beneath ancient stones. Burroughs builds a mythology from the inside out.

Tarzan the Untamed / Tarzan the Terrible — World War One reaches the jungle. Tarzan becomes something else — a force of retribution operating outside every law, human or animal.

Tarzan and the Golden Lion / Tarzan and the Ant Men / Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle / Tarzan and the Lost Empire / Tarzan at the Earth's Core — The series reaches its outer limits: lost Romans, miniaturized civilizations, a hollow earth. Burroughs stops explaining and starts inventing.

✦ The original thirteen novels — the full arc of the series as Burroughs built it, from 1914 to 1930.

This edition also contains:

✦ The Ape-Man and His Worlds — a literary analysis of the Tarzan series as a coherent imaginative project ✦ Empire, Race, and the Ape-Man — a critical essay reading Tarzan in its colonial-historical context, without apology and without evasion ✦ Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan — a critical biography from the failed businessman who gambled on pulp fiction and won

For readers who enjoy:

✦ Classic American adventure literature (Jack London, Zane Grey, H. Rider Haggard) ✦ Complete series collections with critical apparatus ✦ Colonial-era fiction read with historical intelligence ✦ The foundational texts of the adventure genre

He was raised by apes, loved by a woman of a world he couldn't live in, and returned to the jungle every time civilization proved what it was. There are worse philosophies.