The Return of Tarzan

Description

The Return of Tarzan is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs that features Tarzan as its protagonist – the second book in the line of a series containing more than 20 stories.

In the first novel, Tarzan of the Apes, the reader is introduced to Tarzan as an orphaned infant raised by a she-ape and follows him as he is growing up and rising to become the King of the Apes, and as he is travelling to Baltimore and Wisconsin to follow his love and to find out about his true identity. This second story continues right where the first novel ended and features Tarzan’s adventures as he travels to Europe and as he becomes a special agent in Algeria. Eventually, he finds himself in the jungle again, but after numerous adventures; after he discovers true love, he returns to civilization one more time.

The novel is remarkable not only for the adventures presented and for the complex plot weaving technique, but also for the descriptions of the setting and for character development aspects. Written around 1913, in a period when the African continent was far from being completely discovered and mapped, the novel is full of spectacular accounts of the jungle and the tribes that inhabit it.

Tarzan seems to belong to this exotic, free and fascinating world more than he belongs to the Western civilization, though – his transformation from Lord of the Jungle and king to various tribes into the Lord of Greystoke, an English aristocrat is gradual and, according to some, never complete. He learns the rules of the civilized world, but he preserves a strange sort of savagery, which, combined with his innate generosity and elegance, makes him a true hero. He participates in fights with animals and with humans, he is cruel and unforgiving when he has to be, but always noble-hearted.
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