Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan Series

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Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote many separate series of novels, each creating a new world of adventure. ERB's series include the Caprona trilogy, the Mars series, the Venus series and the Pellucidar series. But the most successful of these is the Tarzan series, which was brought to the big screen in several series of films, beginning with silent-era films in which Buster Crabbe played the role of Tarzan. The most successful film series starred olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan with Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane.

The introductory volume in the Tarzan series is Tarzan of the Apes, ERB's third novel that was first published in 1912. It is the story of a young English Lord who is marooned upon the west coast of Africa by the mutinous crew of the sailing vessel Fuwalda upon which the young Lord Greystoke was traveling with his pregnant wife. After being abandoned upon the wild coastline of west Africa, and building a small cabin on the shore, Lord Greystoke's wife gives birth to a son, who becomes an orphan shortly after his first birthday. But the baby is then adopted by a female ape who raises him as her own.

As the child grows, he visits the cabin often, though he has no knowledge of who built the cabin or his own origins. There he finds some picture books that his father had brought to teach his anticipated child, and, through the use of those picture books, the orphaned child learns to read a language that he cannot speak.

One day a second ship comes to the remote shoreline where the young ape-man has become master of the forest. This ship brings another party of castaways, again to be abandoned by a mutinous crew. The party to be abandoned is the party of Professor Archimedes Q. Porter who is accompanied by his secretary (Samuel T. Philander), the young nephew of the previously mentioned Lord Greystoke, a servant named Esmeralda and Porter's own daughter Jane. In the days following their abandonment, the Porter party becomes involved with the white ape-man of the forest in a manner that will bring Tarzan of the Apes to learn his own history and his claim to an English title and estate.

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Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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The most famous cinematic version of Tarzan of the Apes is Tarzan the Ape Man, starring Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane. In this version, Jane Porter becomes Jane Parker, Professor Porter is transformed into the ivory trader John Parker, the ships and the mutineers have all vanished and the movie doesn't preserve the same ending that is presented in the book, but it still serves as the cinematic introduction of Tarzan and Jane. With a release date in 1932, this movie was the first of the Tarzan movies starring Johnny Weissmuller. Amazon.

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In 1981, Tarzan the Ape Man was remade with Bo Derek in the role of Jane Porter.

And, the full set of Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan movies is also available on DVD.

Other Tales of Tarzan

The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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The Beasts of Tarzan (1914)

The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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The Son of Tarzan (1915)

The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916)

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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The Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1917)

Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Tarzan the Untamed (1920)

Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Tarzan the Terrible (1921)

Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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