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The Beasts of Tarzan

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Category: Fiction

Status: Available

Source: Public Domain — Project Gutenberg

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"The Beasts of Tarzan" by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a novel serialized in 1914 and published in book form in 1916. When vengeful enemies kidnap Tarzan's infant son Jack, they exile the ape-man to a remote jungle island while threatening the child with a cannibal tribe. Aided by a panther, intelligent apes, and a native warrior, Tarzan pursues his captors across the mainland in a desperate race to rescue his family and exact justice on those who wronged him. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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The Beasts of Tarzan

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

To Joan Burroughs

Contents

CHAPTER I. Kidnapped

“The entire affair is shrouded in mystery,” said D’Arnot. “I have it on the best of authority that neither the police nor the special agents of the general staff have the faintest conception of how it was accomplished. All they know, all that anyone knows, is that Nikolas Rokoff has escaped.”

John Clayton, Lord Greystoke—he who had been “Tarzan of the Apes”—sat in silence in the apartments of his friend, Lieutenant Paul D’Arnot, in Paris, gazing meditatively at the toe of his immaculate boot.

His mind revolved many memories, recalled by the escape of his arch-enemy from the French military prison to which he had been sentenced for life upon the

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