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Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Tarzan of the Apes

Signet © 2008 (orig. pub. 1912), 320 pages
4 stars

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It's hard to imagine a time when no one had ever heard of Tarzan, when the ape man hadn't swung his way across countless B movie screens and Disney features. When I saw Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes listed among the public domain texts easily downloaded to the Kindle for free, I was curious to see what the original Tarzan looked like, before his cartoonification. It was worth the download.

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Posted by Debra Hamel on December 4, 2009 | < Tweet it! |

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About the blogger: Debra is the mother of two preternaturally attractive girls and the author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. She writes and blogs from her subterranean lair in North Haven, CT. Read more.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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