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The Beasts of Tarzan
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-09-01
ISBN: 0809599848
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Wildside Press

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Book Review: The bad guys make the mistake of kidnapping Jane and son
Summary: 4 Stars

"The Beasts of Tarzan" is the third pulp fiction novel about the Lord of the Jungle by Edgar Rice Burroughs. "The Beasts of Tarzan" finds the ape lord settled in civilized London as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke. But he becomes the target of his enemy, Nikolas Rokoff and his henchman Alexis Paulvitch. The pair abducts Tarzan's Jane and their infant son Jack. Tarzan ends up stranded on a desert island, but with the help of Sheeta the panther and Akut the great ape he makes it back to the mainland. There he meets Mugambi, the giant chief of he Wagambi tribe, a character who goes on to become Tarzan's lifelong friend and ally (a welcome relief after the way virtually all of the natives were just a different sort of jungle animal for Tarzan to torment and kill). This odd group heads off together after the kidnappers into the deep jungle and when Tarzan finds them he lets his inner beast come up with creative ways of making them pay for the mistake of taking his wife and son.

If you start reading the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs in the order that they were written then "The Beasts of Tarzan" is pretty much around the time that it becomes clear that the storyline is usually the same. In ERB's formula our hero is separated from the woman he loves and spends most of the book getting her back. You can throw a baby into the mix, change the impediments placed in the way, or alter the locale from Africa to Mars, Pellucidar or the Land That Time Forgot (far and away the best part of the recipe), but the basic plot remains the same. Burroughs was also getting tired of having to write about Tarzan, which he would prove in the next book in the series, "The Son of Tarzan," where baby Jack grows up to become Korak the Killer. Unfortunately there were more than twenty more Tarzan novels to come, which would rely more and more on a formulaic approach. However, the chief attraction of this edition as part of the Found in the Attic Series was that includes the artwork of J. Allen St. John from the original edition, which is always a joy to come across.

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