Edgar Rice Burroughs

First published in the pulp magazine 'All-Story Magazine' in October, 1912, 'Tarzan of the Apes' is the first novel in a series of adventure novels that was so popular that it would spawn some two dozen sequels. It is the coming of age story of John Clayton, the son of an English couple, Lord and Lady Greystoke, who are marooned in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa. When his father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak and his mother...