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Tarzan of the Apes
Classic fiction
Tarzan of the Apes
Book 1 of the Tarzan series
324 pages · First published 1912
John Clayton, the infant son of English aristocrats, is orphaned on the coast of equatorial Africa and raised by a band of apes who call him Tarzan. Growing into extraordinary physical strength, he gradually discovers the human world through books and through the arrival of Jane Porter and her companions. His attachment to Jane forces him to confront the divide between the identity he built in the jungle and the civilization to which he was born. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s adventure novel created an enormously influential popular hero, though modern readers should expect colonial assumptions and racial stereotypes characteristic of its 1912 context.
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Frequent graphic violence and killings of humans and animals; strangulation, torture and cannibalism; village massacre; forced mating/sexual threat involving apes; racist stereotypes and dehumanizing depictions of Africans; dated racial language; alcohol; intense kissing.
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