The Return of Tarzan
1913
The jungle made him Tarzan. Civilization demands he be someone else. After years in the African wilderness, the ape man returns to Europe, land of silken suits and social masks, only to find that the savagery there wears finer clothing. Hidden identity, dangerous romance, and a villainous Russian countess with a scheming brother all conspire to trap him. Tarzan deliberately conceals his birthright as English lord, convinced his cousin would make a superior noble and more fitting husband for Jane. But when Rokoff's web of deception tightens, the jungle honed predator emerges. Burroughs captures something primal in this sequel: the tension between what we are born into and what we become, between the beast within and the society without. The action crackles aboard ship and through Parisian streets, but the real adventure is internal, a man caught between two worlds, belonging fully to neither.
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“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?””
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
“It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart- kiss me, dear, just once before I lose my dream forever."-Jane-””
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
“...those features are burned so deep into my memory and my heart that I should recognize them anywhere in the world from among a thousand others, who might appear identical to any one but me.””
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
“...my civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.””
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
“The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes - no one living knows more of mine than I.””
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
“...it was his misfortune that most of the men he knew preferred immaculate linen and their clubs to nakedness and the jungle. It was, of course, difficult to understand, yet it was very evident that they did.””
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
“I feel always that I am a prisoner.””
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
“So glorious does love transfigure its object"~Tarzan””
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
“Later, Thuran also found it necessary to construct a similar primitive garment, so that, with their bare legs and heavily bearded faces, they looked not unlike reincarnations of two prehistoric progenitors of the human race. Thuran acted like one.””
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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