Edgar Rice Burroughs and Tarzan

A Biography of the Author and His Creation

By: Robert W. Fenton, George T. McWhorter (Foreword by)

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Hardcover | 1 April 2003

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Robert W. Fenton's 1967 biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs has long been out of print, but it reappears from McFarland as a wonderful source for a new generation of readers. Burroughs' early years were far from promising -- he was dropped from school, undistinguished himself as a cavalryman at Fort Grant, lost out in gold mining, and had little success as a salesman. He knew nothing about writing, but decided to try it anyway -- and created Tarzan, one of the most famous characters of all time. ERB wrote 25 sequels and 40 other novels.

This book includes letters, documents, synopses, lists of characters, and plots and themes Burroughs used, and also reveals his interest in and observations on such issues as women's suffrage, prohibition, morality in Hollywood, and the Scopes trial in Tennessee.

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Acknowledgments	p. v
Foreword	p. 1
Preface	p. 5
Prologue	p. 9
Formative Years 1875-1897	p. 15
Search for Adventure 1898-1904	p. 27
A Lord's Trial 1905-1911	p. 35
Like Ulysses...	p. 41
The Ape-man Cometh 1912	p. 43
Breakthrough 1913	p. 49
Tarzan and Friend	p. 55
Those Crazy Moving Pictures 1913-1918	p. 63
On to the City of Gold 1918	p. 77
Tarzan bei den Affen 1919-1932	p. 81
King of the Serials 1919-1925	p. 87
The Girl from Hollywood and Other Romances 1916-1922	p. 95
Tarzan Swings 1920-1929	p. 103
Tarzan of the World 1920-1929	p. 109
The Mid-Rancho Period 1922-1929	p. 113
The Comic Strip 1928-	p. 123
Two Women 1931-1933	p. 127
The One and Only 1932-1943	p. 135
On Location in Africa 1933-1934	p. 143
New Adventures 1934-1938	p. 147
Monkey Business 1935-1950	p. 153
Search for the Fountain of Youth 1935-1937	p. 161
Pre-Pearl Harbor 1938-1941	p. 167
The Great Adventure 1941-1945	p. 175
Last Years 1946-1950	p. 181
Epilogue	p. 183
Appendices
Chapter Notes	p. 187
99 Days	p. 191
War Correspondent	p. 193
Proposal for a National Reserve Army	p. 199
Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs	p. 201
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Ape-English Dictionary	p. 205
Index	p. 209
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