TARZAN



Author:


Edgar Rice Burroughs

First edition:


Tarzan of Apes, Metropolitan Newspaper Service, 1929.

Main illustrators:


Fabbi


In short:


Tarzan was born in Africa. One day, a tribe of wild apes attacks his family, kills his parents and kidnap the child. Kala, a female baboon, fosters him.
But one day he comes back to the place where he was born and finds the corpses of his parents, some books, letters and useful things to learn how to write, read and count.
Some white men enter the jungle and then tarzan meets Jane, the daughter of a scientist, to whom he gets married. Eventually they have a son, Jack, also called Korak the Killer.
Tarzan tries to find out his origins and finally he discovers that his father was Lord Greystoke, and he recovers his noble title.



Selection of edition:


Il ritorno di Tarzan, illustrated by Fabbio Fabbi, Florence, Bemporad.


More about Tarzan:


Tarzan follozed an amazing carreer. Edgar Rice Burroughs' story is well-known all throughout the world. The first novel about Tarzan was soon adapted by Harold Foster into comic-strip. But cinema had already popularized this story. It was all so successful that many other directors and illustrators have tried their chance in adapting the novel to their needs.


Adaptations:


Tarzan of the Apes was made into a silent film in 1918, with lantern-jawed Elmo Lincoln as the first movie ape-man. More than a dozen actors have since swung through the trees as Tarzan, the most popular having been Johnny Weissmuller, a former Olympic swimming champion. Tarzan has also been the hero of a popular American comic strip and of numerous adventures on radio and television.

Film adaptations:
Read about the film Tarzan the Ape man (1932). And for more recent versions:
Greystoke: the Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, Hugh Hudson's film of 1984 with Chistopher Lambert.
Tarzan and the lost City, produced by Warner Bross in 1998.
Tarzan, produced by Walt Disney, directed by Kevin Lima and Chris Buck, 1999, with the voices of Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver and Glenn Close.


On the Internet:


A site on Tarzan and its author
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