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Title: Tarzan: The Classics - The Beasts of Tarzan, the Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 0345408306 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 1996 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Good adventures for kids today
Comment: I first read these books a few years ago, when I was twelve. I loved all of the Tarzan series (although Jane and Jack seem to disappear later in the series) but these two novels were my favorites. Although I already owned both books, I bought this version simply because having two of my favorite novels in one volume seemed too good to be true. I re-read these books twice a year. The action keeps coming and never lets up (this from a girl who was quickly bored with The Lord of the Rings).
There is also a sort of poetic irony that Burroughs employs. Tarzan comes from the jungle into civilization, while his son goes from civilization to the jungle. While Tarzan grew up without any sort of guidance or moral direction, he is one of the most chivalrous, honorable, and genuinely good people that I've ever encountered in any book (save the bible.) The implication is that the jungle beasts are sometimes more noble and less cruel (albeit no more gentle) than humans who should know better. Indeed, when Jack and Meriem encounter other apes, baboons, or even people, they insist that they are Great Apes and not human (and are proud of the distinction). This is furthered by the fact that the most unlikely of people (as in the ugly, filthy cook on the ship which holds Jane hostage) sometimes are the most brave and good.
Overall, these two stories are great adventures that hold something deeper for anyone who cares to look.
Rating: 5
Summary: The third and fourth Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan novels
Comment: This volume brings together the third and fourth of the Tarzan novels written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and as was the case with the first pair of novels, "The Beasts of Tarzan" and "The Son of Tarzan" works as two halves of a whole. "The Beasts of Tarzan" finds the ape lord settled in civilized London as Lord Greystoke. But he becomes the target of his enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, and his henchman Alexis Paulvitch. The pair abducts Tarzan's Jane and their son Jack. Tarzan is stranded on a desert island, but with the help of Sheeta the panther and Akut the great ape he makes it back to the mainland. There he meets Mugambi, the giant chief othe Wagambi tribe, who becomes Tarzan's lifelong friend and ally. The group heads after the kidnappers into the deep jungle and when Tarzan finds them he lets his inner beast come up with ways of making them pay.
"The Son of Tarzan" finds that Paulvitch survived the vengeance of Tarzan and now wants toe ven the score. Luring young Jack Clayton away from London, Paulvitch's plan is foiled when Jack escapes with the help of Akut, the great ape. Fleeing to the African jungle where Tarzan was raised the son of Tarzan becomes Korak the Killer, taking on the great apes as his father had before him. Along the way Korak rescues Meriem, a beautiful young woman, from a band of Arab raiders (she turns out to be the daughter of Armand Jacot a Foreign Legion Captain who is also Prince de Cadrenet). "The Son of Tarzan" has the same sort of relationship with the original novel "Tarzan of the Apes" that you find between Jack London's "White Fang" and "The Call of the Wild," although I would be loath to accuse Burroughs of taking a stand on social Darwinism instead of just telling an adventure yarn. The only complaint, such as it is, would be that already Burroughs is starting to cover the same ground of the previous novels, although this time around it is his son who needs to be rescued and then becomes the rescuer in turn.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Tarzan series
Comment: I have read most of these books and have found them very enjoyable.I am tring to get the whole series again to reread andfor my son's to read as well
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Title: The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 0345315758 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Tarzan of the Apes: Tarzan No. 1 by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 034531977X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 1576462374 Publisher: Quiet Vision Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 157646248X Publisher: Quiet Vision Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (Tarzan Novel, No 5) by Edgar Rice Burroughs ISBN: 0345321618 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 1987 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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