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Tarzan of the Apes — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs

  • Adventure
  • Book language: English
  • 246 pages

Tarzan of the Apes is an adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs about a boy orphaned in the African jungle and raised by apes. Through a tale of survival, belonging, and encounters with human civilization, it explores questions of heredity and identity. It is worth listening to as a classic adventure story.

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Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Contents
CHAPTER I. Out to Sea
CHAPTER II. The Savage Home
CHAPTER III. Life and Death
CHAPTER IV. The Apes
CHAPTER V. The White Ape
CHAPTER VI. Jungle Battles
CHAPTER VII. The Light of Knowledge
CHAPTER VIII. The Tree-top Hunter
CHAPTER IX. Man and Man
CHAPTER X. The Fear-Phantom
CHAPTER XI. “King of the Apes”
CHAPTER XII. Man’s Reason
CHAPTER XIII. His Own Kind
CHAPTER XIV. At the Mercy of the Jungle
CHAPTER XV. The Forest God

CHAPTER XVI. “Most Remarkable”
CHAPTER XVII. Burials
CHAPTER XVIII. The Jungle Toll
CHAPTER XIX. The Call of the Primitive
CHAPTER XX. Heredity
CHAPTER XXI. The Village of Torture
CHAPTER XXII. The Search Party
CHAPTER XXIII. Brother Men
CHAPTER XXIV. Lost Treasure
CHAPTER XXV. The Outpost of the World
CHAPTER XXVI. The Height of Civilization
CHAPTER XXVII. The Giant Again
CHAPTER XXVIII. Conclusion

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Contents

  1. Tarzan of the Apes
  2. Contents
  3. CHAPTER I. Out to Sea
  4. CHAPTER II. The Savage Home
  5. CHAPTER III. Life and Death
  6. CHAPTER IV. The Apes
  7. CHAPTER V. The White Ape
  8. CHAPTER VI. Jungle Battles
  9. CHAPTER VII. The Light of Knowledge
  10. CHAPTER VIII. The Tree-top Hunter
  11. CHAPTER IX. Man and Man
  12. CHAPTER X. The Fear-Phantom
  13. CHAPTER XI. “King of the Apes”
  14. CHAPTER XII. Man’s Reason
  15. CHAPTER XIII. His Own Kind
  16. CHAPTER XIV. At the Mercy of the Jungle
  17. CHAPTER XV. The Forest God
  18. CHAPTER XVI. “Most Remarkable”
  19. CHAPTER XVII. Burials
  20. CHAPTER XVIII. The Jungle Toll
  21. CHAPTER XIX. The Call of the Primitive
  22. CHAPTER XX. Heredity
  23. CHAPTER XXI. The Village of Torture
  24. CHAPTER XXII. The Search Party
  25. CHAPTER XXIII. Brother Men.
  26. CHAPTER XXIV. Lost Treasure
  27. CHAPTER XXV. The Outpost of the World
  28. CHAPTER XXVI. The Height of Civilization
  29. CHAPTER XXVII. The Giant Again
  30. CHAPTER XXVIII. Conclusion

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