![]() ![]() ![]() Tarzan of the Apes, first published in 1912, is the first installment of Burroughs tales of the ape man, which would expand to encompass more than two dozen books. All things outside his own tribe were his deadly enemies…įrom Chapter X: The Fear Phantom Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public’s imagination. He knew nothing of the brotherhood of man. Tarzan of the Apes was no sentimentalist. ![]() Similarity of form led him into no erroneous conception of the welcome that would be accorded him should he be discovered by these, the first of his own kind he had ever seen. His savage life among the fierce wild brutes of the jungle left no opening for any thought that these could be aught else than enemies. ![]() He saw that at one point the forest touched the village, and to this spot he made his way, lured by a fever of curiosity to behold animals of his own kind, and to learn more of their ways and view the strange lairs in which they lived. From a lofty perch Tarzan viewed the village of thatched huts across the intervening plantation. ![]()
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