Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

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**Title** **Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar**
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Author	Edgar Rice Burroughs
Illustrator	J. Allen St. John
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Tarzan series
Genre(s)	Adventure novel
Publisher	A. C. McClurg
Released	1918
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	350 pp
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	The Son of Tarzan
Followed by	Jungle Tales of Tarzan

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was published in 1916.

1 Plot summary
2 Copyright
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[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In the previous novel Tarzan and Jane's son, Jack Clayton, a.k.a. Korak, had come into his own. In this novel Tarzan goes to Opar, the source of the gold where a lost colony of fabled Atlantis is located. However since Atlantis sank beneath the waves thousands of years ago, the workers of Opar had continued to mine all of the gold, which meant there was a rather huge stockpile. Tarzan followed a greedy Belgian and an Arab into the jungle, where this criminal pair managed to stumble upon this lost city, at which point John Clayton lost his memory as an after effect a fight. La, the high priestess who was the servant of the Flaming god, and who was also very beautiful, took advantage of his amnesia because she had fallen in lust with the ape man since their first encounter. But while his amnesia opened the door for her lustful advances, her high priests were not going to allow Tarzan to escape their sacrificial knives. In the meanwhile, Jane was in trouble and wondered what was keeping her husband from once again coming to her rescue.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Copyright

The copyright for this story has expired in the United States, and thus now resides in the public domain there. The text is available via Project Gutenberg.