Tarzan the TerribleThe game was up. That Tarzan knew. No longer could cunning and diplomacy usurp the functions of the weapons of defense he best loved. And so the first hideous priest who leaped to the platform was confronted by no suave ambassador from heaven, but rather a grim and ferocious beast whose temper savored more of hell. ~~~ Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public's imagination. Tarzan the Terrible, first published in 1921, is considered by devotees one of the best of Burroughs' tales of the ape-man. Here, Tarzan sets off to rescue his beloved Jane, kidnapped by Lieutenant Obergatz, but the journey takes him across lands untamed and uncharted, inhabited by primitive tribes and archaic creatures from the depths of time. American novelist EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950) wrote dozens of adventure, crime, and science fiction novels that are still beloved today, including Tarzan of the Apes (1912), At the Earth's Core (1914), A Princess of Mars (1917), The Land That Time Forgot (1924), and Pirates of Venus (1934). He is reputed to have been reading a comic book when he died. |
Contents
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To the Death | 15 |
Panatlee | 29 |
Tarzanjadguru | 42 |
In the Korulgryf | 54 |
The Torodon | 67 |
Jungle Craft | 82 |
Alur | 93 |
The King Is Dead | 180 |
The Secret Way | 192 |
By Jadballul | 201 |
The Lion Pit of Tulur | 214 |
Diana of the Jungle | 226 |
Silently in the Night | 237 |
The Maniac | 250 |
A Journey on a Gryf | 264 |
BloodStained Altars | 106 |
The Forbidden Garden | 117 |
The Sentence of Death | 130 |
The Giant Stranger | 142 |
The Masquerader | 154 |
The Temple of the Gryf | 166 |
Taken Alive | 275 |
The Messenger of Death | 286 |
Home | 297 |
Glossary | 303 |
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