Tarzan the Terrible
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy English adventure fiction and want light original-text reading
- Popular-fiction fans interested in the Tarzan series or Burroughs's work
- Students hoping to practice English reading with strongly plotted texts
- Researchers of early twentieth-century American popular genre literature
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer rigorous realism or modern literary technique
- Those with weak English who need annotations to read smoothly
- Readers expecting a standalone complete story and unwilling to enter a series context
Reading tips
- Read an earlier series installment or learn the basic Tarzan setup first to reduce obstacles in character relationships.
- Read one or two chapters at a fixed daily pace; when encountering invented place names, don't stop—follow the plot forward.
- Keep a vocabulary notebook, recording only recurring words that affect understanding, and avoid looking up every word.
- After finishing, revisit key adventure passages to sort out character motives and event causality for deeper understanding.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) was an American author best known for his science fiction and adventure novels. The library holds 33 of his works, including Tarzan of the Apes, The Gods of Mars, At the Earth's Core, The Land That Time Forgot, Pellucidar, and The Moon Maid. His writing is boldly imaginative and briskly paced, often combining unfamiliar settings—alien worlds, the Earth's interior, and the jungle—with tense adventure. His Tarzan figure has had a lasting influence, and his Mars and Pellucidar series are also important early works of science fiction adventure. Public information about the details of his life is limited, so this introduction focuses on his creative output.
