The Son of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture Tarzan of the Apes and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the publics imagination. The Son of Tarzan first published in 1917 is the fourth book in Burroughs tales of the ape-man. Here Tarzans young son Jack Clayton escaping kidnappers flees from London to the jungle of Africa and the boy raised in civilization learns to live among the beasts to become Korak the Killer a mighty warrior. American novelist EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950) wrote dozens of adventure crime and science fiction novels that are still beloved today including Tarzan of the Apes (1912) At the Earths Core (1914) A Princess of Mars (1917) The Land That Time Forgot (1924) and Pirates of Venus (1934). He is reputed to have been reading a comic book when he died.