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Tarzan of the Apes and The Return of Tarzan — A Pulp-Lit Annotated Edition — By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Edited and annotated by FINN J.D. JOHN Pulp-Lit PRODUCTIONS Corvallis, Oregon This edition copyright ©2015 by Finn J.D. John. All rights reserved, with the exception of those portions of this book written by Edgar Rice Burroughs or published in his original works, on which copyright protections have expired. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Pulp-Lit Productions, Post Office Box 77, Corvallis, OR 97339; or e-mail [email protected]. Second edition Interactive PDF ISBN: 978-1-63591-238-8 This edition, like the original, is dedicated to Emma Hurlbert Burroughs, in gratitude. Cover design by Fiona Mac Daibheid based on original All-Story Magazine cover art by Clinton Pettee Pulp-Lit Productions Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A. http://pulp-lit.com Other Pulp-Lit Productions titles Robert E. 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Lovecraft. •Audiobook (8 hours) •Hardcover (102 pages) For our full catalog search “Pulp-Lit” on •Pocket-size softcover your favorite bookseller's Website, or see •E-book http://pulp-lit.com. •Audiobook (1.3 hours) This book is available CONTENTS in other formats: Audiobook, e-book, paperback, hardcover. Foreword (Audiobook Chapter 2) .......................... 1 Book One: . Tarzan of the Apes .......................9 I .......Out to Sea (Audiobook Chapter 3) .............11 You are reading the complimentary electronic copy of The Tarzan Duology of II ......The Savage Home (Audiobook Chapter 4) .......23 Edgar Rice Burroughs in the Adobe PDF format — Pulp-Lit Productions’ version III .....Life and Death (Audiobook Chapter 5) ..........33 of Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature, only including the entire book. IV .....The Apes (Audiobook Chapter 6) ..............41 Whether you’re here checking it out to see if you might want to own a copy, or doing a quick search, or even retrieving a clean digital copy of one of the stories for V ......The White Ape (Audiobook Chapter 7) .........49 a project of your own — welcome! VI .....Jungle Battles (Audiobook Chapter 8) ...........57 But, of course, PDF is hardly the most convenient format in which to read a book. VII ....The Light of Knowledge (Audiobook Chapter 9) ..65 Here are a few other options, followed by a link to follow for more information: VIII ....The Tree-top Hunter (Audiobook Chapter 10) ....77 • Deluxe 6x9 softcover; IX .....Man and Man (Audiobook Chapter 11) .........83 • E-book in EPUB and Kindle formats; (Audiobook Chapter 12) • Audiobook (16 hours, 20 minutes). X ......The Fear-Phantom ......95 XI .....“King of the Apes” (Audiobook Chapter 13) .....101 To learn more about these other formats, please click here to go to the Tarzan Book Support Page at http://pulp-lit.com/230.html. XII ....Man’s Reason (Audiobook Chapter 14) .........113 XIII ....His Own Kind (Audiobook Chapter 15) ........123 XIV ....At the Mercy of the Jungle (Audiobook Chapter 16) 137 Thank you for reading our books! XV .....The Forest God (Audiobook Chapter 17) .......147 XVI ....“Most Remarkable” (Audiobook Chapter 18) ....153 XVII ...Burials (Audiobook Chapter 19) ..............163 XVIII ..The Jungle Toll (Audiobook Chapter 20) ........175 XIX ....The Call of the Primitive (Audiobook Chapter 21) 187 XX .....Heredity (Audiobook Chapter 22) .............199 XXI ....The Village of Torture (Audiobook Chapter 23) ..211 ix THE TARZAN DUOLOGY of EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS XXII ...The Search Party (Audiobook Chapter 24) ......219 XIX ....The City of Gold (Audiobook Chapter 49) ......489 XXIII ..Brother Men (Audiobook Chapter 25). 229 XX .....La (Audiobook Chapter 50) ..................499 XXIV ..Lost Treasure (Audiobook Chapter 26) .........239 XXI ....The Castaways (Audiobook Chapter 51) ........509 XXV ...The Outpost of the World (Audiobook Chapter 27) 247 XXII ...The Treasure Vaults of Opar(Audiobook Ch. 52) . 519 XXVI ..The Height of Civilization (Audiobook Chapter 28) 259 XXIII ..The Fifty Frightful Men (Audiobook Chapter 53) . 529 XXVII ..The Giant Again (Audiobook Chapter 29). 271 XXIV ..How Tarzan Came Again to Opar (Chapter 54) 539 XXVIII .Conclusion (Audiobook Chapter 30) ...........285 XXV ...Through the Forest Primeval(Audiobook Ch. 55) . 549 XXVI ..The Passing of the Ape-Man(Audiobook Ch. 56) 561 Book Two: . The Return of Tarzan ...................297 I .......The Affair on the Liner (Audiobook Chapter 31) . 299 Afterword: Commentary and Annotations (Audiobook Ch. 57) 569 II ......Forging bonds of hate and —?(Audiobook Ch. 32) 309 III .....What Happened in the Rue Maule (Chapter 33) 319 IV .....The Countess Explains (Audiobook Chapter 34) ..329 V ......The Plot that Failed (Audiobook Chapter 35) ....341 VI .....A Duel (Audiobook Chapter 36) ..............351 VII ....The Dancing Girl of Sidi Aissa(Chapter 37) ...361 VIII ....The Fight in the Desert (Audiobook Chapter 38) . 371 IX .....Numa “El Adrea” (Audiobook Chapter 39) ......381 X ......Through the Valley of the Shadow (Chapter 40) . 393 XI .....John Caldwell, London (Audiobook Chapter 41) . 403 XII ....Ships that Pass (Audiobook Chapter 42) ........413 XIII ....The Wreck of the “Lady Alice” (Chapter 43) ...423 XIV ....Back to the Primitive (Audiobook Chapter 44) ...437 XV .....From Ape to Savage (Audiobook Chapter 45) ....447 XVI ....The Ivory Raiders (Audiobook Chapter 46) ......457 XVII ...The White Chief of the Waziri (Chapter 47) ...467 XVIII ..The Lottery of Death (Audiobook Chapter 48) ...477 x xi FOREWORD his book comprises the first two of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ original Tarzan books, which combine to tell the complete story of Tarzan’s rise from his jungle origins to take his place as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke. It is, essentially, a duology. TIt’s a duology that changed the face of popular literature almost as much as it changed the life of its author. For most of the second half of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ life, Tarzan of the Apes — meaning the character, not the book — was his meal ticket. After the first two books, Burroughs was able to come back to Tarzan again and again: The Beasts of Tarzan (1914), The Son of Tarzan (also 1914), Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916), Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919), Tarzan the Untamed (1920), Tarzan the Terrible (1921) … in all, a total of 24 Tarzan books poured forth from Burroughs’ prolific pen between 1912 and roughly 1945. Tarzan made Burroughs wealthy and famous; it made him beloved of the many and reviled by a few; and it gave him, eventually, the opportunity to transcend the stingy pulp magazines in which he had gotten his literary start. The first novel in the series, Tarzan of the Apes, was Burroughs’ third novel, and it’s one of his very best. But more than that, it’s unquestionably THE TARZAN DUOLOGY of EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS his most misunderstood. The Tarzan to whom Burroughs therein he later wrote, according to Burroughs biographer Irwin Porges introduces us is a tri-lingual gentleman with a very unusual set of skills, (recounted in his beefy, thorough 1975 biography, The Man who Created a complex and admirable ethical code, and an odd relationship with Tarzan). “Yet I was supposed to solve all the problems of our subscribers, civilization that mirrors to a startling degree the relationship of the New among which were some very big concerns.” World with the Old. Tarzan of the Apes is emphatically not the clunky, For a man with a conscience, it was a morally unpleasant position, unsubtle, “me Tarzan you Jane” grunt-fiction that popular opinion, under and Burroughs quite clearly felt that discomfort and resented being the influence of so many Tarzan movies and comics and other derivative forced to assume it. “Ethically, it was about two steps below the patent- works, usually assumes it to be. medicine business,” he wrote. And, “I never so thoroughly disliked any employer.” dgar Rice Burroughs started writing Tarzan of the Apes in late But in 1912, a family man with a wife and two small children didn’t 1911 — the same year that had seen his literary debut with the have the luxury of turning up his nose at his job unless another one was widely praised and still-much-loved A Princess of Mars. It very close at hand. The success of A Princess of Mars had given Burroughs followed directly upon the heels of Burroughs’ then-unsold second hope that his family’s bills might be paid in a more congenial way; but Enovel, The Outlaw of Torn — a historical-fiction work set in medieval the reception of The Outlaw of Torn had dashed those hopes cruelly and Europe, which Burroughs had dashed out in less than a month in a rush left Burroughs prey to those peculiar doubts to which creative minds of energy following the smashing success of A Princess of Mars earlier seem especially prone: Was Princess a mere fluke? Would he never again that year. be able to replicate that success? Burroughs packaged and submitted The Outlaw of Torn to his Of course, we know he would. But when he sat down to work on publisher with great excitement.