Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories

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Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories are a classic series of early 20th-century adventure tales about a man raised by apes in the African jungle, which helped define the modern jungle hero archetype and inspired numerous adaptations in film, television, and other media.

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instanceOf adventure fiction
literary work series
pulp fiction series
adaptedInto animated films
comic books
comic strips
films
radio dramas
stage productions
television series
author Edgar Rice Burroughs NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
firstBookPublicationYear 1914
firstPublicationMedium All-Story Magazine NERFINISHED
firstWorkInSeries Tarzan of the Apes NERFINISHED
genre adventure
fantasy
lost world fiction
influenced jungle hero archetype
inUniverseElement Mangani (fictional great apes) NERFINISHED
Opar (lost city) NERFINISHED
language English
literaryMovement early 20th-century popular fiction
mainCharacter Tarzan NERFINISHED
notableAdaptation Disney's Tarzan (1999 film) NERFINISHED
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film) NERFINISHED
notableWork Jungle Tales of Tarzan NERFINISHED
Tarzan Triumphant NERFINISHED
Tarzan and the Ant Men NERFINISHED
Tarzan and the Castaways NERFINISHED
Tarzan and the City of Gold NERFINISHED
Tarzan and the Forbidden City NERFINISHED
Tarzan and the Foreign Legion NERFINISHED
Tarzan and the Golden Lion NERFINISHED
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar NERFINISHED
Tarzan and the Leopard Men NERFINISHED
Tarzan and the Lion Man NERFINISHED
Tarzan and the Lost Empire NERFINISHED
Tarzan and the Madman NERFINISHED
Tarzan at the Earth's Core NERFINISHED
Tarzan of the Apes NERFINISHED
Tarzan the Invincible NERFINISHED
Tarzan the Magnificent NERFINISHED
Tarzan the Terrible NERFINISHED
Tarzan the Untamed NERFINISHED
Tarzan's Quest NERFINISHED
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle NERFINISHED
The Beasts of Tarzan NERFINISHED
The Return of Tarzan NERFINISHED
The Son of Tarzan NERFINISHED
numberOfNovels 24
periodOfPublicationEnd 1940s
periodOfPublicationStart 1910s
protagonistRaisedBy apes
protagonistRealName John Clayton NERFINISHED
protagonistTitle Lord Greystoke NERFINISHED
publicationStartYear 1912
publisher A. C. McClurg NERFINISHED
recurringCharacter Jane Porter NERFINISHED
Kala NERFINISHED
Kerchak NERFINISHED
Korak NERFINISHED
setting African jungle
theme civilization versus nature
heredity and nobility
identity

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Tarzan and the Lost City isAdaptationOf Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories
Tarzan films basedOn Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories
this entity surface form: Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Tarzan (serial involvement noted historically) basedOn Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan stories
subject surface form: The Adventures of Tarzan
this entity surface form: Tarzan novels