Tarzan of the apes, John Clayton, Lord GreystokeThe Internet Movie Database lists 88 movies with Tarzan in the title between 1918 and 1999Edgar Rice Burroughs became one of the twentieth century's most popular authors Read the complete history of Tarzan...
... and follow the jungle hero from the first novel
"Tarzan Of The Apes" published in 1912 in the "All-Story" magazine. From this one novel sprang
two dozen more, over forty movies, hundreds of comic books, radio shows, television programs,
toys, underwear, and more... Edgar Rice Burroughs became one of the twentieth century's
most popular authors, and Tarzan one of the world's best-known literary characters. And
all this from one story that came close to never being written
at all. Tarzan, a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs....
... first appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes
and then in twenty-three sequels. He is the son of the British Lord and Lady Greystoke, marooned on the coast
of Africa by mutineers. His parents died when he was an infant, and he was raised by Kala, his ape mother.
As a young adult, he meets Jane, and when she returns to America he leaves the jungle in search of his true love.
Tarzan and Jane marry, and he lives with her for a time in England. They have one son, Jack, who takes the
ape name Korak. Tarzan is contemptuous of the hypocrisy of civilization, and he and Jane return to Africa
where they live happily ever after. Books about Tarzan 
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