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TARZAN BOOKS (by Chronological release)

Book 1. Tarzan of the Apes (1912)

Book 2. The Return of Tarzan (1913)

Book 3. The Beasts of Tarzan (1914)

Book 4. The Son of Tarzan (1915)

Book 5. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916)

Book 6. Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919)

Book 7. Tarzan the Untamed (1919)

Book 8. Tarzan the Terrible (1921)

Book 9. Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1923)

Book 10. Tarzan and the Ant-Men (1924)

Book 11. Tazan Lord of the Jungle (1927)

Book 12. Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1928)

Book 13. Tarzan at the Earth’s Core (1930)

Book 14. Tarzan the Invincible (1931)

Book 15. Tarzan Triumphant (1931)

Book 16. Tarzan and the City of Gold (1932)

Book 17. Tarzan and the Lion Man (1933)

Book 18. Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1933)

Book19. Tarzan’s Quest (1935)

Book 20. Tarzan the Magnificent (1936)

Book 21. Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938)

Book 22. Tarzan and the Castaways (1944)

Book 23. Tarzan and “The Foreign Legion” (1947)

Book 24. The Tarzan Twins (1927)

Book 25. Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-Bal-Ja the Golden Lion (1936)

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

TARZAN OF THE APES

BOOK 1 IN THE TARZAN SERIES

First published in The All-Story, October 1912

First Book Edition—A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1914

TABLE OF CONTENTS

                      Chapter 1. Out To Sea

                      Chapter 2. The Savage Home

                      Chapter 3. Life And Death

                      Chapter 4. The Apes

                      Chapter 5. The White Ape



                      Chapter 6. Jungle Battles

                      Chapter 7. The Light Of Knowledge

                      Chapter 8. The Tree-Top Hunter

                      Chapter 9. Man And Man

                      Chapter 10. The Fear-Phantom

                      Chapter 11. "King Of The Apes"

                      Chapter 12. Man's Reason

                      Chapter 13. His Own Kind

                      Chapter 14. At The Mercy Of The Jungle

                      Chapter 15. The Forest God

                      Chapter 16. "Most Remarkable"

                      Chapter 17. Burials

                      Chapter 18. The Jungle Toll

                      Chapter 19. The Call Of The Primitive

                      Chapter 20. Heredity

                      Chapter 21. The Village Of Torture

                      Chapter 22. The Search Party

                      Chapter 23. Brother Men

                      Chapter 24. Lost Treasure

                      Chapter 25. The Outpost Of The World

                      Chapter 26. The Height Of Civilization

                      Chapter 27. The Giant Again

                      Chapter 28. Conclusion

1. OUT TO SEA

I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the begi

When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative.

I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have taken fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it may be true.

The yellow, mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead, and the records of the Colonial Office dovetail perfectly with the narrative of my convivial host, and so I give you the story as I painstakingly pieced it out from these several various agencies.

If you do not find it credible you will at least be as one with me in acknowledging that it is unique, remarkable, and interesting.

From the records of the Colonial Office and from the dead man's diary we learn that a certain young English nobleman, whom we shall call John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, was commissioned to make a peculiarly delicate investigation of conditions in a British West Coast African Colony from whose simple native inhabitants another European power was known to be recruiting soldiers for its native army, which it used solely for the forcible collection of rubber and ivory from the savage tribes along the Congo and the Aruwimi. The natives of the British Colony complained that many of their young men were enticed away through the medium of fair and glowing promises, but that few if any ever returned to their families.

The Englishmen in Africa went even further, saying that these poor blacks were held in virtual slavery, since after their terms of enlistment expired their ignorance was imposed upon by their white officers, and they were told that they had yet several years to serve.

And so the Colonial Office appointed John Clayton to a new post in British West Africa, but his confidential instructions centered on a thorough investigation of the unfair treatment of black British subjects by the officers of a friendly European power. Why he was sent, is, however, of little moment to this story, for he never made an investigation, nor, in fact, did he ever reach his destination.

Clayton was the type of Englishman that one likes best to associate with the noblest monuments of historic achievement upon a thousand victorious battlefields—a strong, virile man—mentally, morally, and physically.

In stature he was above the average height; his eyes were gray, his features regular and strong; his carriage that of perfect, robust health influenced by his years of army training.

Political ambition had caused him to seek transference from the army to the Colonial Office and so we find him, still young, entrusted with a delicate and important commission in the service of the Queen.

When he received this appointment he was both elated and appalled. The preferment seemed to him in the nature of a well- merited reward for painstaking and intelligent service, and as a stepping stone to posts of greater importance and responsibility; but, on the other hand, he had been married to the Hon. Alice Rutherford for scarce a three months, and it was the thought of taking this fair young girl into the dangers and isolation of tropical Africa that appalled him.