Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library

Viscount Greystoke will see you now.One of the advantages of riding the subway to work is getting extra reading time. Coming home, though, I often have to stand for a good while before I can get a seat. As it is not comfortable wrangling the actual book I am reading at a given time while standi......more

I don't know about you, but when I think of Tarzan, I see that classic image of him swinging through the trees and hear that crazy yodel-scream thing he did. I've seen multiple movies but I've never read the real stories, so I thought it was high time to remedy that. Truthfully, Burroughs' classic did......more

I must say, I was expecting more from this book. It takes inspiration from a wide array of very good adventure novels, but manages to be more bigoted than the colonial literature that inspired it and less factual and forward-looking than books written thirty years before. One of the major inspiration......more

Here: the fountainhead & the story buried below a myriad adaptations. E. R. Burroughs's dream did come true after all: his Tarzan spun off into countless later tales & films-- heck, even Broadway musicals. Read this scant but brutal adventure tale with its due respect, for it includes: examples of p......more

I have read this book first in my early teens and was really taken with it as well as the other books of the series that were translated into Hungarian back then. My original, undistinguishing rating would have been 4 stars at least, I am sure, as I found the books entertaining and quite fascinating......more