Who is the Tarzan created by Edgar Rice Burroughs?
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"Biographical Sketch"
Tarzan, a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first
appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in
twenty-three sequels. He is the son of a British Lord and
Lady, marooned on the coast of Africa by mutineers. His
parents died when he was an infant, and he was raised by
Great Apes of a species unknown to science. Kala is his ape
mother. Tarzan (White-skin) is his ape name; his English
name is John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (per Burroughs; Earl
of Greystoke per later, non-canonical sources, notably the
1984 movie Greystoke). As a young adult, he meets Jane,
and when she returns to America he leaves the jungle in
search of his true love. Tarzan and Jane marry, and he lives
with her for a time in England. They have one son, Jack,
who takes the ape name Korak. Contemptuous of the
hypocrisy of civilization, Tarzan and Jane return to their
African farm where, both being immortal, they still live.
adapted from Wikipedia
Tarzan, a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first
appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in
twenty-three sequels. He is the son of a British Lord and
Lady, marooned on the coast of Africa by mutineers. His
parents died when he was an infant, and he was raised by
Great Apes of a species unknown to science. Kala is his ape
mother. Tarzan (White-skin) is his ape name; his English
name is John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (per Burroughs; Earl
of Greystoke per later, non-canonical sources, notably the
1984 movie Greystoke). As a young adult, he meets Jane,
and when she returns to America he leaves the jungle in
search of his true love. Tarzan and Jane marry, and he lives
with her for a time in England. They have one son, Jack,
who takes the ape name Korak. Contemptuous of the
hypocrisy of civilization, Tarzan and Jane return to their
African farm where, both being immortal, they still live.
adapted from Wikipedia
P. J. Monahan. December 9, 1922 cover for the first in a seven-part serialization of Tarzan and the Golden
Lion in Argosy All-Story Weekly. This is not the wimp of the movies; this is a Tarzan of real-strength,
of body and character. He has a confident grasp on his world and our imaginations. In this illustration
Tarzan is the experience-sharpened power in his universe---a mythic, jungle world that lived only in the
minds of the Colonial-era Europeans and an American public who romanticized them, a world recast in
each adventure novel of Victorian and depression-era writers of escapist adventure, most notably Rudyard
Kipling, H. Ryder Haggard, and, of course, Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Lion in Argosy All-Story Weekly. This is not the wimp of the movies; this is a Tarzan of real-strength,
of body and character. He has a confident grasp on his world and our imaginations. In this illustration
Tarzan is the experience-sharpened power in his universe---a mythic, jungle world that lived only in the
minds of the Colonial-era Europeans and an American public who romanticized them, a world recast in
each adventure novel of Victorian and depression-era writers of escapist adventure, most notably Rudyard
Kipling, H. Ryder Haggard, and, of course, Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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