Subject: Free Audio Review
I actually listened to this thinking it was the second Tarzan novel and didn't suffer for it, in fact anyone who knows the premise of the Tarzan character can listen to this without having read or listened to any of the other Tarzan stories.
The story is the epitome of the Pulp Genre, taking reality and giving it a little kick into the unbelievable, which makes it both exciting and fantastic.
The Son of Tarzan follows, strangely enough, the Son of Tarzan as events roll over the Greystoke estate and Tarzan's son finds himself alone in the Jungle as a young lad.
Adventure, fights, close calls, and even love come to the son of the great man as he swings from tree to tree.
There are enough characters in this story both of the animal kind and the human variety to keep it interesting throughout. Good guys and bad guys all putting the love aspect of the story into jeopardy.
This wasn't a story I couldn't put down, but it was one I kept coming back to. The reader was pretty good and did some interesting voices that I found amusing.
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chapter 4 of son of tarzan this librivox recording is in the public domain son of tarzan by edgar rice burroughs chapter 4 the killing of the friendless old russian michael cebroff by his great trained ape was a matter for newspaper comment for a few days lord greystoke read of it and while taking special precautions not to permit his name to become connected with the affair kept himself well posted as to the police search for the anthropoid as was true of the general public his chief interest in the matter centered about the mysterious disappearance of the slayer or at least this was true until he learned several days subsequent to the tragedy that his son jack had not reported at the public school in route for which they had seen him safely as sconced in a railway carriage even then the father did not connect the disappearance of his son with the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the ape nor was it until a month later that careful investigation revealed the fact that the boy had left the train before it pulled out of the station at london and the cab driver had been found who had driven him to the address of the old russian that tarzan of the apes realized that acute had in some way been connected with the disappearance of the boy beyond the moment that the cab driver had deposited his fare beside the curb in front of the house in which the russian had been quartered there was no clue no one had seen either the boy or the ape from that instant at least no one who still lived the proprietor of the house identified the picture of the lad as that of one who had been a frequent visitor in the room of the old man aside from this he knew nothing and there at the door of a grimy old building in the slums of london the searchers came to a blank wall baffled the day following the death of alexis palbich a youth accompanying his invalid grandmother boarded a steamer at dover the old lady was heavily veiled and so weakened by age and sickness that she had to be wheeled aboard the vessel in an invalid chair the boy would permit none but himself to wheel her and with his own hands assisted her from the chair to the interior of their stateroom and that was the last that was seen of the old lady by the ship's company until the pair disembarked the boy even insisted upon doing the work of their cabin steward since as he explained his grandmother was suffering from a nervous disposition that made the presence of strangers extremely distasteful to her outside the cabin and then there was a board who knew what he did in the cabin the lad was just as any other healthy normal english boy might have been he mingled with his fellow passengers became a prime favorite with...
