Jungle Tales of Tarzan - Paperback

by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author)

Book 6 of the Tarzan adventures created by Edgar Rice Burroughs with the cover from the first edition in 1919. Jungle Tales of Tarzan is a collection of 12 loosely connected short stories by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the 6th book in order of publication in his series of 24 books about the title character Tarzan. Chronologically the events recounted in it occur within Chapter 11 of the first Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes, between Tarzan's avenging of his ape foster mother's death and his becoming leader of his ape tribe. The stories ran monthly in Blue Book magazine before book publication in 1919.

"Jungle Tales of Tarzan is the sixth volume in the Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs and goes back to the beginning for a collection of short stories set in the time when Tarzan still lived among the great apes. Tarzan has learned how to read from the books he has found and it is opening his young mind to new questions, like where do dreams come from and where he can confront Goro, the supreme being that is the moon. There is also the love triangle between Tarzan, his first love Teeka, and their rival Taug, as well as his adventures tormenting the people of the local Mbonga tribe. "Jungle Tales of Tarzan" is a nice companion volume to the original "Tarzan of the Apes," as it provides more depth and detail to the early years of the Lord of the Jungle. It also marks a coda to what we would now consider the original story arc of the Tarzan novels. Burroughs would write another 21 Tarzan novels but they would become increasingly formulaic. In many ways this is the last time we would see the original Tarzan; you can think of "Jungle Tales of Tarzan" as sort of being the "deleted scenes" from the original "Tarzan of the Apes" novel. This particular edition also features ilustrations by J. St. John Allen, always considered the best of ERB's original artists." - Lawrence Bernabo