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Table of Contents
FROM THE PAGES OF TARZAN OF THE APES
Title Page
Copyright Page
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
THE WORLD OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS AND TARZAN OF THE APES
Introduction
I - Out to Sea
II - The Savage Home
III - Life and Death
IV - The Apes
V - The White Ape
VI - Jungle Battles
VII - The Light of Knowledge
BOY
A BOY AND A DOG
VIII - The Tree-top Hunter
IX - Man and Man
A is for Archer
X - The Fear-Phantom
XI - “King of the Apes”
XII - Man’s Reason
XIII - His Own Kind
XIV - At the Mercy of the Jungle
XV - The Forest God
XVI - “Most Remarkable”
XVII - Burials
XVIII - The Jungle Toll
XIX - The Call of the Primitive
XX - Heredity
XXI - The Village of Torture
XXII - The Search Party
XXIII - Brother Men
XXI V - Lost Treasure
XXV - The Outpost of the World
XXVI - The Height of Civilization
XXVII - The Giant Again
XXVIII - Conclusion
ENDNOTES
INSPIRED BY TARZAN OF THE APES
COMMENTS & QUESTIONS
FROM THE PAGES OF
TARZAN OF THE APES
For a long time no sound broke the deathlike stillness of the jungle midday save
the piteous wailing of the tiny man-child. (page 30)
And then Tublat went to Kerchak to urge him to use his authority with Kala, and
force her to give up little Tarzan, which was the name they had given to the tiny
Lord Greystoke, and which meant “White-Skin.” (page 38)
From early childhood he had used his hands to swing from branch to branch
after the manner of his giant mother, and as he grew older he spent hour upon
hour daily speeding through the tree tops with his brothers and sisters. (page 37)
As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the
neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his
fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people. (pages 61—
62)
His strange life had left him neither morose nor bloodthirsty. That he joyed in
killing, and that he killed with a joyous laugh upon his handsome lips betokened
no innate cruelty. He killed for food most often, but, being a man, he sometimes
killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for
man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere
pleasure of inflicting suffering and death. (page 79)
“Tarzan,” he continued, “is not an ape. He is not like his people. His ways are
not their ways, and so Tarzan is going back to the lair of his own kind by the
waters of the great lake which has no farther shore. You must choose another to
rule you, for Tarzan will not return.” (page 101)
“What a frightful sound!” cried Jane, “I shudder at the mere thought of it. Do not
tell me that a human throat voiced that hideous and fearsome shriek.” (page 127)
From the trees Tarzan of the Apes watched the solemn ceremony; but most of all
he watched the sweet face and graceful figure of Jane Porter. (page 139)
I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine.
(page 154)
When Jane realized that she was being borne away a captive by the strange
forest creature who had rescued her from the clutches of the ape she struggled
desperately to escape, but the strong arms that held her as easily as though she
had been but a day-old babe only pressed a little more tightly. (page 168)
“Yes, Miss Porter, they were—cannibals.” (page 192)
“I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still
should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I
would have gone into the jungle with you—forever.” (page 211)
Gradually he became accustomed to the strange noises and the odd ways of
civilization, so that presently none might know that two short months before, this
handsome Frenchman in immaculate white ducks, who laughed and chatted with
the gayest of them, had been swinging naked through primeval forests to pounce
upon some unwary victim, which, raw, was to fill his savage belly. (page 222)
“My mother was an Ape, and of course she couldn’t tell me much about it. I
never knew who my father was.” (page 252)
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