The Beasts of Tarzan

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Title The Beasts of Tarzan
Image:Beasts_of_tarzan.jpg
dust-jacket illustration of The Beasts of Tarzan
Author Edgar Rice Burroughs
Country United States
Language English
Series Tarzan series
Genre(s) Adventure novel
Publisher A. C. McClurg
Released 1916
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 336 pp
ISBN NA
Preceded by The Return of Tarzan
Followed by The Son of Tarzan

The Beasts of Tarzan is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the third in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was published in 1914.

Contents

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In the previous novel Tarzan reclaimed his name and title as John Clayton, Lord Greystroke. In this novel he finds that proper society is just as vicious as the jungle when greedy men threaten him and his new family. Jane and her infant son Jack are kidnapped by Tarzan's enemies, Nikolas Rokoff and Alexis Paulvitch, who then trap Tarzan himself and attempt to exile him forever on a primitive island, bereft of all those dear to him. There, however, Tarzan gains new allies in the panther Sheeta and the ape Akut, together with Akut's band. With their aid he tracks down his wife and son, and in the end dispatches Rokoff. Paulvitch too is presumed dead.

[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.

[edit] References

  • Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 66. 

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Preceded by
The Return of Tarzan
Tarzan series
The Beasts of Tarzan
Succeeded by
The Son of Tarzan