The Son of Tarzan

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Paperback, 1980

Status

Available

Call number

Fic Adventure Burroughs Tarzan

Publication

Ballantine Books (1980), Mass Market Paperback, 224 pages

Description

Classic Literature. Fiction. HTML: The Son of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs' fourth novel in the Tarzan series. First serialized between 1915 and 1916 in All-Story Weekly, it was published as a novel in 1917. Narrowly surviving his encounter with his enemy Tarzan in The Beasts of Tarzan, Alexis Paulvitch has a score to settle. He lures Tarzan's son Jack away from London and captures him, only to have Jack escape into the jungle that Tarzan once called home. With the help of an ape named Akut, Jack soon finds his place among the great apes, as his father did before him. But after rescuing the beautiful young woman named Meriem, the disaffected young man and the mistreated young woman must learn to live and love together in the dangerous jungle..… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member andyray

this may be the most interesting burroughs' tarzan story, since it only involves tarzan as a strong and civilized englishman. his son, however, voluntarily leaves for africa to be with his love who he rescues from an evil sheik. Burroughs obviously did not blacks or browns a whole lot. For him and

his readers, racism isn't an issue. One is white or one is black (brown, red, or otherwise). White is good. Anything else bad. Kinda like Tarzan, eh?

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LibraryThing member Prop2gether

This edition, published by 1stWorld, is full of grammar and spelling and usage errors, which sometimes mangle the storyline.

That said, this was a great romp in the jungle with Tarzan's son, starting and ending in England, but full of wild adventures with heroes and villains worthy of the challenge.

LibraryThing member Spyderman58

My favorite so far. Can't wait to read the next in the series.

LibraryThing member themulhern

It's not clear what is so appealing about Burroughs' writing. He uses the same stock phrases over and over and they sound equally good each time. There are so many characters meeting up in the "trackless jungle" that it might as well be a central station on the London Underground. Troublesome

characters conveniently succumb to their injuries. A simple shave is an impenetrable disguise. In the end the characters all return happily to London, even though they obviously belong in the jungle. The racism is strange...involving some complicated classifications. White men are always superior, even when wicked. Every single man she meets becomes immediately consumed with the desire to "possess" Merriam. Everybody important lives happily ever after until the next book.

The fantasy of a man so superhuman that he can be a flawless English gentleman and also Lord of the Jungle is the wildest superhero fantasy ever imagined.

The cover illustration is powerful and evocative.

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LibraryThing member tjsjohanna

While this fourth in the series was full of adventure, much of it felt recycled from adventures Tarzan had himself. And while I know it is all fantasy, I somehow had an easier time believing Tarzan as a superhero but his son, not so much. Somehow the fact that Tarzan had been raised by apes gave

some cause for his super powers but I couldn't buy a proper English school boy somehow acquiring all those abilities simply because he landed on African shores.

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LibraryThing member nx74defiant

I was surprised how little I remembered of this book.
The book is as much about Meriem as it is about Tarzan's son, They spend quite a bit of time separated.

LibraryThing member AliceAnna

Another good yarn if you can ignore some of the casual racism in the book. Thankfully that is not prevalent throughout the book and is, unfortunately, representative of the times. The book was somewhat slow to start for me and dragged out a bit longer than necessary, but when the action was on, it

was on and fun. Prepare to suspend disbelief and just go along for the ride.

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LibraryThing member kslade

Another OK sequel. Jack (Korak), son of Tarzan, proves himself in the wilds of Africa just like his father.

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