TARZAN: 8 Novels in One Volume (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. African Jungle Adventures of a Feral Hero, Lost Worlds, and Civilization Versus WildernessBy Edgar Rice Burroughs
Length75h 18m
About this audiobook
TARZAN: 8 Novels in One Volume gathers a substantial arc of Edgar Rice Burroughs's celebrated jungle saga, following the orphaned English lord raised among apes as he moves between primeval Africa, imperial society, lost cities, and extravagant peril. Written in a vigorous, episodic style shaped by pulp magazines and romance adventure, these novels combine swift plotting, melodramatic reversals, and mythic characterization. They belong to the early twentieth-century tradition of imperial adventure fiction, yet their enduring force lies in the contradictory figure of Tarzan: both aristocrat and outsider, instinctual survivor and moral hero. Burroughs, born in Chicago in 1875, came to authorship after an unsettled career in business, sales, and military-associated ventures. His practical familiarity with American self-making, combined with a voracious imagination rather than firsthand African experience, helped produce fiction driven by escape, reinvention, and mastery over hostile worlds. Tarzan, first appearing in 1912, reflects Burroughs's fascination with heredity, environment, masculinity, and civilization's fragile claims. This volume is recommended for readers of classic adventure, popular literary history, and myth-making fiction. While modern readers should approach its racial and colonial assumptions critically, the collection remains essential for understanding one of popular culture's most influential heroic archetypes.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, Literary Classics
Length75 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 17, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1TARZAN: 8 Novels in One Volume (Annotated)
103Chapter 19
2Introduction
104Chapter 20
3Author Biography
105Chapter 21
4Historical Context
106Chapter 22
5Synopsis (Selection)
107Chapter 23
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6Tarzan of the Apes
108Chapter 24
7Out to Sea
109Chapter 25
8The Savage Home
110Chapter 26
9Life and Death
111Chapter 27
10The Apes
112Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
11The White Ape
113Belgian and Arab
12Jungle Battles
114On the Road to Opar
13The Light of Knowledge
115The Call of the Jungle
14The Tree-top Hunter
116Prophecy and Fulfillment
15Man and Man
117The Altar of the Flaming God
16The Fear-phantom
118The Arab Raid
17“King of the Apes”
119The Jewel-room of Opar
18Man’s Reason
120The Escape from Opar
19His Own Kind
121The Theft of the Jewels
20At the Mercy of the Jungle
122Achmet Zek Sees the Jewels
21The Forest God
123Tarzan Becomes a Beast Again
22“Most Remarkable”
124La Seeks Vengeance
23Burials
125Condemned to Torture and Death
24The Jungle Toll
126A Priestess but Yet a Woman
25The Call of the Primitive
127The Flight of Werper
26Heredity
128Tarzan Again Leads the Mangani
27The Village of Torture
129The Deadly Peril of Jane Clayton
28The Search Party
130The Fight for the Treasure
29Brother Men.
131Jane Clayton and the Beasts of the Jungle
30Lost Treasure
132Jane Clayton Again a Prisoner
31The Outpost of the World
133The Flight to the Jungle
32The Height of Civilization
134Tarzan Recovers His Reason
33The Giant Again
135A Night of Terror
34Conclusion
136Home
35The Return Of Tarzan
137Jungle Tales of Tarzan
36The Affair on the Liner
138Tarzan’s First Love
37Forging Bonds of Hate and —?
139The Capture of Tarzan
38What Happened in the Rue Maule
140The Fight for the Balu
39The Countess Explains
141The God of Tarzan
40The Plot That Failed
142Tarzan and the Black Boy
41A Duel
143The Witch-doctor Seeks Vengeance
42The Dancing Girl of Sidi Aissa
144The End of Bukawai
43The Fight in the Desert
145The Lion
44Numa “El Adrea”
146The Nightmare
45Through the Valley of the Shadow
147The Battle for Teeka
46John Caldwell, London
148A Jungle Joke
47Ships That Pass
149Tarzan Rescues the Moon
48The Wreck of the Lady Alice
150Tarzan the Untamed
49Back to the Primitive
151Murder and Pillage
50From Ape to Savage
152The Lion’s Cave
51The Ivory Raiders
153In the German Lines
52The White Chief of the Waziri
154When the Lion Fed
53The Lottery of Death
155The Golden Locket
54The City of Gold
156Vengeance and Mercy
55La
157When Blood Told
56The Castaways
158Tarzan and the Great Apes
57The Treasure Vaults of Opar
159Dropped from the Sky
58The Fifty Frightful Men
160In the Hands of Savages
59How Tarzan Came Again to Opar
161Finding the Airplane
60Through the Forest Primeval
162The Black Flier
61The Passing of the Ape-man
163Usanga’s Reward
62The Beasts of TarzanTo Joan Burroughs
164The Black Lion
63Kidnapped
165Mysterious Footprints
64Marooned
166The Night Attack
65Beasts at Bay
167The Walled City
66Sheeta
168Among the Maniacs
67Mugambi
169The Queen’s Story
68A Hideous Crew
170Came Tarzan
69Betrayed
171In the Alcove
70The Dance of Death
172Out of the Niche
71Chivalry or Villainy
173The Flight from Xuja
72The Swede
174The Tommies
73Tambudza
175Tarzan the Terrible
74A Black Scoundrel
176The Pithecanthropus
75Escape
177“To the Death!”
76Alone in the Jungle
178Pan-at-lee
77Down the Ugambi
179Tarzan-jad-guru
78In the Darkness of the Night
180In the Kor-ul-gryf
79On the Deck of the Kincaid
181The Tor-o-don
80Paulvitch Plots Revenge
182Jungle Craft
81The Last of the Kincaid
183A-lur
82Jungle Island Again
184Blood-stained Altars
83The Law of the Jungle
185The Forbidden Garden
84The Son Of TarzanTo Hulbert Burroughs
186The Sentence of Death
85Chapter 1
187The Giant Stranger
86Chapter 2
188The Masquerader
87Chapter 3
189The Temple of the Gryf
88Chapter 4
190“The King Is Dead!”
89Chapter 5
191The Secret Way
90Chapter 6
192By Jad-bal-lul
91Chapter 7
193The Lion Pit of Tu-lur
92Chapter 8
194Diana of the Jungle
93Chapter 9
195Silently in the Night
94Chapter 10
196The Maniac
95Chapter 11
197A Journey on a Gryf
96Chapter 12
198Taken Alive
97Chapter 13
199The Messenger of Death
98Chapter 14
200Home
99Chapter 15
201Analysis
100Chapter 16
202Reflection
101Chapter 17
203Memorable Quotes
102Chapter 18
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