Tarzan, Book 1 (Comic Strip Preserves) - Softcover
The legendary Tarzan is enjoying renewed popularity through a syndicated television series and the recent Disney movie GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE. This giant omnibus--illustrated by Tarzan artist J. Allen St. John--contains three complete novels: the very first story, TARZAN OF THE APES, as well as THE SON OF TARZAN and TARZAN AT THE EARTH'S CORE.
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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.
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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."
This book is a large print version using a minimum of 16 point type in a 6 by 9 inch size and perfect bound - a paperback. As with all Quiet Vision print books, it use a high grade, acid free paper for long life.
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- PublisherBlackthorne Publishing
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0932629296
- ISBN 13 9780932629296
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages72
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Tarzan, Book 1 (Comic Strip Preserves)
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. b/w Illustrations (illustrator). Not Indicated. Tarzan, a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels. He is the son of a British Lord and Lady who were marooned on the West coast of Africa by mutineers. Tarzan's parents died when he was an infant, and he was raised by the Mangani, Great Apes of a species unknown to science. Kala is his ape mother. Tarzan (White-skin) is his ape name; his English name is John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (according to Burroughs; Earl of Greystoke in later, non-canonical sources, notably the 1984 movie Greystoke). As a young adult, he meets Jane Porter who, with others of her party, including her father, is marooned at exactly the same spot on the African coast where Tarzan's parents were marooned roughly twenty years earlier. When she returns to America, he leaves the jungle in search of her, his one true love. In later books, Tarzan and Jane marry and he lives with her for a time in England. They have one son, Jack, who takes the ape name Korak the Killer. Tarzan is contemptuous of the hypocrisy of civilization, and he and Jane return to Africa where, both being immortal, they still live. A couple of creases on cover, otherwise in very nice condition. Seller Inventory # 030439
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good Plus. SOFTCOVER 1986. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat spine. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref B47. TARZAN: COMIC-STRIP PRESERVES. BOOK 1. ISBN:0932629296. Seller Inventory # 024785
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