Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle

In Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, Edgar Rice Burroughs offers an adventure, fiction first published in 1928. Edgar Rice Burroughs uses the form to consider risk, movement, endurance, and encounters beyond ordinary life, keeping the emphasis on how ideas become choices, conflicts, and consequences. As part of a series, the book also contributes to a larger imaginative or narrative design while retaining its own identity. The book’s distinctive character comes from a brisk narrative style that favors momentum, danger, and vivid episodes. At roughly 70,454 words with a fairly easy reading profile, it offers a reading commitment that is easy to judge before beginning while still leaving room for close attention. Its continuing value lies in its appeal as a study of courage, survival, and the urge to cross boundaries. It remains worth reading for the precision with which it turns risk into a sustained literary experience. Its combination of period detail and recognizable human concerns makes it suitable for independent reading, discussion, or a first exploration of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s work.