Tarzan of the Apes

The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, <i>Tarzan of the Apes</i> remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, is &quot;the best known character in the whole of fiction.&quot; As John Taliaferro asserts in his Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic, &quot;There is no question that [<i>Tarzan of the Apes</i>] is one of the most entertaining and exemplary books of the last century. . . . [It] is not merely a story from a bygone era; it is a tale as old as time, and for all time, too.&quot;