When he is one year old his mother dies, and soon thereafter his father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak.
Some time later, their son John Clayton II is born. John and Alice (Rutherford) Clayton, Viscount and Lady Greystoke from England, are marooned in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa in 1888. Scholars have noted several important themes in the novel: the impact of heredity on behavior racial superiority civilization, especially as Tarzan struggles with his identity as a human sexuality and escapism. In April 2012, in advance of the novel's centennial anniversary, the Library of America published a hardcover edition based on Burroughs' original novel, with an introduction by Thomas Mallon.( ISBN 978-1-59853-164-0). So popular was the character that Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with two dozen sequels. The story follows the title character Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society.
It was first serialized in the pulp magazine The All-Story beginning October 1912 before being released Tarzan of the Apes is a 1912 story by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the first in the Tarzan series.
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