Tarzan
Tarzan is a fictional character created by American novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs, and first published in the October 1912 issue of All-Story Magazine. The son of an English nobleman who grows up in Africa among a pack of apes, Tarzan, through the subsequent novels by Burroughs and many motion pictures, has become one of the most familiar literary characters ever created.
History
Edgar Rice Burroughs had failed at a number of jobs prior to becoming a writer[1]. During his last job as a pencil sharpener salesman, he read the many pulp magazines that his advertisements were placed in, and began writing several stories which were eventually published; among them was A Princess of Mars for All-Story Magazine in 1911, the foundation of his Martian stories featuring protagonist John Carter, and for which he was paid $400 dollars[2]. Having found a niche that he liked - and encouraged by his publisher - he began the first of what would become a series of twenty-five novels featuring Tarzan.
External links
The Burroughs novels, in public domain from Project Gutenberg
- Tarzan of the Apes
- The Return of Tarzan
- Jungle Tales of Tarzan
- Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
- Beasts of Tarzan
- Tarzan the Terrible
- Tarzan the Untamed
- Son of Tarzan