The Son of Tarzan

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The Son of Tarzan
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Dust-jacket illustration of The Son of Tarzan
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
Publication date 1914
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 394 pp
ISBN NA
Preceded by The Beasts of Tarzan
Followed by Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

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

Contents

[edit] Plot summary

In the previous novel Jane had been kidnapped along with her infant son Jack, by Tarzan's enemy Nikolas Rokoff and his henchmen. Of course, Tarzan tracked down his wife and son and finally dispatched his enemies. In this novel the key point is like father, like son. Alexis Paulvitch, a henchman of Tarzan's enemy, Nikolas Rokoff, had survived his encounter with the ape-man and wants to even the score using Jack Clayton, Tarzan's son, by luring him away from London and into his clutches. Unfortunately for Paulvitch, Jack had escaped with the help of the ape named Akut. Akut & Jack fled into the deep African jungle where two decades earlier Tarzan himself had been raised. The young Jack Clayton on his own becomes known as Korak the killer and builds a reputation for himself in the Jungle. Korak, like his father before him, finds his own place in the Jungle among the great apes, and also like his father meets and rescues a beautiful young woman, this one named Meriem. Meriem was the daughter of a Captain in the French Foreign Legion, who was also a Prince (Prince de Cadrenet), named Armand Jacot.

[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, 67. 

[edit] External links

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Preceded by
The Beasts of Tarzan		 Tarzan series
The Son of Tarzan		 Succeeded by
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar


v • d • e
Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan novels
Tarzan collections
Tarzan short stories
Other jungle adventure
The Cave Girl (1925) • The Eternal Lover (1925) • Jungle Girl (1932) • The Man Eater (1935) • The Lad and the Lion (1938)
Martian series
A Princess of Mars (1917) • The Gods of Mars (1918) • The Warlord of Mars (1919) • Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920) • The Chessmen of Mars (1922) • The Master Mind of Mars (1928) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1931) • Swords of Mars (1936) • Synthetic Men of Mars (1940) • Llana of Gathol (1948) • John Carter of Mars (1964)
Pellucidar series
At the Earth's Core (1914) • Pellucidar (1915) • Tanar of Pellucidar (1929) • Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929) • Back to the Stone Age (1937) • Land of Terror (1944) • Savage Pellucidar (1963)
Venus series
Pirates of Venus (1934) • Lost on Venus (1935) • Carson of Venus (1939) • Escape on Venus (1946) • Wizard of Venus (1964)
Other science fiction
Beyond Thirty (1916) • The Land That Time Forgot (1918) • The People That Time Forgot (1918) • Out of Time’s Abyss (1918) • The Moon Maid (1926) • The Monster Men (1929) • The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw (1937) • Beyond the Farthest Star (1941)
Westerns
The Bandit of Hell's Bend (1926) • The War Chief (1927) • Apache Devil (1933) • The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County (1940)
Historical novels
The Outlaw of Torn (1914/1927) • I Am a Barbarian (1967)
Other works
The Mucker (1914/16) • The Girl from Farris's (1916) • The Oakdale Affair (1917) • The Efficiency Expert (1921) • The Girl from Hollywood (1923) • The Mad King (1926) • The Rider (1937) • Pirate Blood (1970) • Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M (1998) • Marcia of the Doorstep (1999) • You Lucky Girl! (1999) • Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder (2001)