The First and Only Online Fanzine Devoted to the Life and Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs 
Master of Imaginative Fantasy Adventure Creator of Tarzan and "Grandfather of American Science Fiction" |
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The First and Only Online Fanzine Devoted to the Life and Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Master of Imaginative Fantasy Adventure Creator of Tarzan and "Grandfather of American Science Fiction" |
ERBzine0122
The Many
Worlds of
"The
master of imaginative fantasy adventure...
...the
creator of Tarzan and...
...the
'grandfather of science-fiction'"
ERB COMPENDIUM
T7-2
TARZAN
THE UNTAMED
ERB's seventh Tarzan
novel has an interesting publishing history.
Part I (chapters
1-13) was written in
Oak Park (1918)
and Los Angeles (1919)
and was published
in six episodes in Red Book (1919).
Part II (chapters
14-24) was published in five parts in
All-Story Weekly
(1920).
McClurg then bought
the serial for book publication as
Tarzan the Untamed
on June 2, 1920.
The anti-German
WWI propaganda contained in the
story deemed it
to be the first Tarzan novel
to be refused publication
in the lucrative
German market.
See
ERBzine 0126 for the complete genealogy
The All-Story editor
ran the following introduction:
"It is surely a
work of supererogation like gilding refined gold,
painting the lily
or "throwing perfume on the violet"
to write an introduction
of any great length to a story by
Edgar Rice Burroughs,
and this is particularly true
when that story
deals with the famous ape-man, Tarzan.
Both the character
and his creator are too well known and
too universally
popular to need any introduction,
so we will only
say that in this story which marks
the return of Tarzan
of the Apes
to the pages of
ALL-STORY WEEKLY
where he began
his career,
Mr. Burroughs has
lived up to his reputation of
making every story
he writes
a little better
than the last."
Chapter
Contents
I
Murder and Pillage
II
The Lion's Cave
III
In the German Lines
IV
When the Lion Fed
V
The Golden Locket
VI
Vengeance and Mercy
VII
When Blood Told
VIII
Tarzan and the Great Apes
IX
Dropped from the Sky
X
In the Hands of Savages
XI
Finding the Airplane
XII
The Black Flier
XIII
Usanga's Reward
XIV
The Black Lion
XV
Mysterious Footprints
XVI
The Night Attack
XVII
The Walled City
XVIII
Among the Maniacs
XIX
The Queen's Story
XX
Came Tarzan
XXI
In the Alcove
XXII
Out of the Niche
XXIII
The Flight from Xuja
XXIV
The Tommies
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The Publisher's Book DescriptionTarzan the Untamed
With the speed of the great apes, Tarzan rushed through the jungle toward his home and family. But he was already too late. The marauders had been there before him. His farm was in shambles and no one was left alive. Silently, he swore his terrible vengeance against those who had done this monstrous deed. Then he set out grimly to track them...through warring armies... across a vast desert that no man had ever crossed... and to a strange valley where only madmen lived.Tarzan The Terrible
Lieutenant Obergatz had fled in terror from the seeking vengeance of Tarzan of the Apes. And with him, by force, he had taken Tarzan's beloved mate, Jane. Now the ape-man was following the faint spoor of their flight, into a region no man had ever penetrated. The trail led across seemingly impassable marshes into Pal-ul-don -- a savage land where primitive Waz-don and Ho-don fought fiercely, wielding knives with their long, prehensile tails -- and where mighty triceratops still survived from the dim dawn of time...Notes on the Author from the Publisher
The first time I ever went to Tarzana, California, I walked down Ventura Boulevard, noticing that all of the buildings were really ugly. Then I arrive at my destination: a small house, set back from the street, with a beautiful tree shading the entire front yard. Inside, the air was cool and everything was polished wood, especially the incredible, gigantic desk. That's where he worked. It was awesome.Edgar Rice Burroughs had a huge California ranch, and the land eventually became a town, named for Burroughs's most famous character. Burroughs created one of the few heroes everyone knows, and at that desk, he took Tarzan to exotic lands, had him face bizarre creatures and endless, exotic challenges. Those adventures spirit the reader away to a timeless time of action and heroism. And sitting in that office, I was a permanent convert. For me, and for countless others, the legend will never cease. And that's as it should be.
--Steve Saffel, Senior Editor
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Philip Jose Farmer's 1999 Tarzan book -
The Dark Heart of Time
takes place between TU and TTe.
Tarzan, trailing Jane who has been captured by
the Germans,
encounters evil white hunters, cannibals, hidden
cities,
a lost race, legends, monsters and earthquakes.
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