Tarzan of the Apes: A Tarzan Novel (Modern Library Classics) - Softcover

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812967062 ISBN 13: 9780812967067

Publisher: Modern Library Inc, 2003

Synopsis

The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, is "the best known character in the whole of fiction." As John Taliaferro asserts in his Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic, "There is no question that [Tarzan of the Apes] is one of the most entertaining and exemplary books of the last century. . . . [It] is not merely a story from a bygone era; it is a tale as old as time, and for all time, too."

About this title

Review:

"[Burroughs has] a gift very few writers of any kind possess: he can describe action vividly." --Gore Vidal

About the Author:

John Taliaferro is the author of Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan and Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mount Rushmore. He lives in Texas and Montana.

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Library Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0812967062
• ISBN 13: 9780812967067
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288