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List Price: $15.95Amazon.com's Price: $14.35 You Save: $1.60 (10%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780809599813
ISBN: 0809599813
Label: Aegypan Books
Manufacturer: Aegypan Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 324
Publication Date: September 01, 2003
Publisher: Aegypan Books
Sales Rank: 323846
Studio: Aegypan Books
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Product Description:
A ship's mutiny forces a young noble English couple out onto the African coast, and their child is born in the wild. When they die a short time later, the boy is adopted by an ape, and raised as her own. The boy, Tarzan, rises to dominance in the jungle . . . TARZAN OF THE APES is Edgar Rice Burroughs's exploration of mankind a it's seen from the perspective of a man reared outside civilization, and the insights he offers are often not flattering. Tarzan has all the features we look for in a hero -- he is handsome, brave, and stronger than any ordinary man. But he is an arrogant loner, prone to violence. TARZAN OF THE APES explores that which is within all of us, the primal drives and abilities that made for our survival -- Burroughs created a hero who, because of his immense potential and truly unique upbringing -- became a believable SUPERMAN. Burroughs told the tale in engaging prose which still sweeps us along.
Amazon.com Review:
First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty."
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
very good book it took
me there days to read it.
the writing is very good
but it leaves you asking
queszions about Jane and Tarzan,
are they going to leave together
or Jane going to marry the other
guy Claton?
but it is a good boook
Rating:  -
The shipment was very fast. I appreciated receiving the book so quickly. It was rated as in very good condition, however, I think the rating should have been fair or good.
Rating: -
This book has action, excitement, drama, suspense, and unfortunately racism. Edgar Rice Burroughs clearly wrote to a white, male audience with this book, which in 1914 when it was first published was likely the case. Tarzan is that primordial man with no obligations but to himself who somehow teaches himself to write while also teaching himself to be the most cunning entity in the jungle. He can read and write and then go kill an ape or lion on his way home. What a guy.
The fact ... Read More
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I can forgive some of the unrealistic things as well as the multiple coincidences, but I cannot reconcile how Tarzan, who knew how to read and write, but not yet how to speak, could sign his own name on a love note to Jane.
He had never learned pronunciation of letters and words, so it would be IMPOSSIBLE for him to have signed his name.
Rating:  -
What more can we say of Tarzan of the Apes - he truly is an American original, and has influenced characters in film, television and comic books from the Beastmaster to Sheena to Ka-Zar and beyond, as well as standing as a popular culture phenomenon in his own right. We always think we know the whole story - a man raise din the jungle, befriended by animals, fighting whatever danger comes at him with his Girl Friday, Jane, at his side. However, if we return to the original novel, we find a more complex ... Read More
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