Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Tarzan of the Apes

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dove Audio - producer

Narrator: Ben Kingsley

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

This classic tale of Tarzan, the young English boy in the deepest African jungle, is one of imagination, adventure, and ultimate action. Raised by apes, he learns to speak to the animals, swing through the jungle, and survive happily as one of their own. Only when he meets a group of British tourists on safari does his world change completely. His first encounter with humans, and Jane especially, turns his known life upside down. This Edgar Rice Burroughs classic tale beckons listeners to escape their own world and visit a savage and untamed wilderness.

Members Reviews:

Welcome to the Jungle

Thereâs something about the character Tarzan that still resonates with people today even more than 100 years after he was originally created. Television shows, radio shows, feature films, comic book adaptations, animated shows, and animated features have all contributed to this mythic character, while also mostly leaving some of the more unpleasant stuff aside. It can certainly be troubling to some to go back to the source of it all, Tarzan of the Apes, only to discover that it is chock full of sentiments that todayâs readers may take great offense to. The discussion of racism and sexism in this novel, and frankly, of many thousands of novels written in less enlightened times than our own, is valid and worth having, but I wonât be having it here. Readers sensitive to those topics may want to proceed into Tarzan with caution or not at all. That saidâ

I had a great time reading Tarzan of the Apes, but it is absolutely a pulp novel. The plot is well known to most, the details probably less so, but there isnât anything ground breaking going on here. Or is there? Itâs hard to say. On one hand, like I pointed out above, Tarzan has been around for over a hundred years now. That certainly doesnât rank him in Shakespearean terms, but outside of Sherlock Holmes, Zorro, or James Bond, I canât think of many other characters that have persisted quite like that, barring the entrance of comic book super heroes. Tarzan serves as a kind of model man for young boys â like the ultimate Boy Scout. The boy Tarzan, like many boys, is born and feels mundane until that first look in the water reveals he is actually special. And over time, he learns to do things others canât. This is the super hero origin part of the story, and it begins early on. Tarzan becomes capable of physical feats that mere men are not while at the same time, the other side of him becomes the learned English gentleman. In many ways, he foreshadows Bruce Wayne and Batman, except the disguise for Tarzan is absent. He lost his parents, was an outsider, trains his mind and body to super human levels, then re-enters society as a regular man. Outside of the losing your parents part, it isnât hard to imagine this journey as that of a young boyâs fantasy. That alone doesnât seem like quite enough to carry a dime story novel for a century though. Is there more? I feel like the further men of our current culture are separated from their traditional primitive roles of hunter gatherer, the greater the need and difficulty finding value and meaning in oneâs own existence becomes.