Tarzan the Untamed

Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan the Untamed is an adventure, fiction first published in 1920. 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 109,434 words with an average difficulty reading profile, it offers a reading commitment that is easy to judge before beginning while still leaving room for close attention. The work remains relevant through its appeal as a study of courage, survival, and the urge to cross boundaries. Readers drawn to adventure, fiction and risk will find a work that combines a distinct period voice with questions that remain recognizable today.