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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100812967062
ISBN-139780812967067
eBay Product ID (ePID)2306458
Product Key Features
Book TitleTarzan of the Apes : a Tarzan Novel
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Literary, Action & Adventure
Publication Year2003
GenreFiction
AuthorEdgar Rice Burroughs
Book SeriesModern Library Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.5 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-024543
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"[Burroughs has] a gift very few writers of any kind possess: he can describe action vividly." -Gore Vidal
Afterword byVidal, Gore
Dewey Decimal813/.52
SynopsisThe first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, is "the best known character in the whole of fiction." As John Taliaferro asserts in his Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic, "There is no question that Tarzan of the Apes ] is one of the most entertaining and exemplary books of the last century. . . . It] is not merely a story from a bygone era; it is a tale as old as time, and for all time, too.", The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, is "the best known character in the whole of fiction." As John Taliaferro asserts in his Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic, "There is no question that Tarzan of the Apes is one of the most entertaining and exemplary books of the last century. . . . It is not merely a story from a bygone era; it is a tale as old as time, and for all time, too."