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Tarzan

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Tarzan

Fictitious hero inhabiting the African rainforest, created by US writer Edgar Rice Burroughs in Tarzan of the Apes (1914), with numerous sequels. Tarzan and his partner Jane have featured in films, comic strips, and television series.

Tarzan, raised by apes from infancy, is in fact a British peer, Lord Greystoke. He has enormous physical strength and the ability to communicate with animals. Jane Porter, an American, falls in love with him while on safari and chooses to stay.



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Or at least so thought Tarzan of the Apes, who squatted upon a low-swinging branch in a near-by tree and looked down upon her.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
As Tarzan walked slowly toward the smoking-room he came unexpectedly upon two men whispering excitedly just without.
The Return of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
It will go well indeed with Herr Hauptmann Fritz Schneider if he brings in the famous Tarzan of the Apes as a prisoner of war.
Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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