He especially got inspiration from the Romulus and Remus legend in the Roman mythology as well as The Jungle book by Rudyard Kipling. He finds his son many years later, this latter, now an adult has, like him before, grown up in the jungle…Įdgar Rice Burroughs has immersed himself in the evolutionist theories and in an entire literature around the savage child raised by monkeys to create his character. To find him back, Tarzan will have to reject the “civilized” world and, with Jane, will go back to the “wild” life. Tarzan lord Greystoke and Jane, now husband and wife, have a son named Jack, who, fascinated by his father’s past, runs away and reaches the African jungle. After he meets Jane Porter, who becomes his partner, he goes for a while in America (Baltimore), and then settle in England. These are Black natives thanks to whom he becomes more human. Tarzan meets humans for the first time when he is an adult. He also has a better intellect and he learns English by himself using the picture books his parents had brought. Having had to survive in the jungle from a very tender age, Tarzan shows physical abilities superior to those of the athletes of the civilized world. In orang, Tarzan means “white skin”, but his real name is John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke. When his parents die, Tarzan is taken in by a tribe of big monkeys, the orangs, a race unknown to science, but who shares common characteristics with gorillas, chimpanzees and the first Hominid, in particular a primitive form of language. Tarzan is the son of English aristocrats who have been landed in the African jungle after a mutiny. This first volume will be followed by 25 others. Tarzan is a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1914 in the novel Tarzan of the Apes, which will be published for the first time in France by Fayard in 1926 under the title Tarzan chez les singes. Hall Printing Company, Chicago” printed in gothic letters on 2 lines on the verso of the title leaf, and it also possesses the binding in first issue, without the acorn design that will appear at the bottom of the spine on the second issue. This copy belongs to the first issue of the text, with the mention “ W.F. Case.įirst edition and first issue of the adventures of Tarzan, mythical fictional character of the 20th century. With the facsimile of the very rare illustrated dust cover. Preserved in the editor’s red cloth binding with the title stamped in gilt letters on the upper cover and at the top of the spine. including the half-title and the illustrated title, 400 pp., (2), (3) bl.ll.