THE TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES (ILLUSTRATED). Edgar Rice Burroughs
Читать онлайн.| Название | THE TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES (ILLUSTRATED) |
|---|---|
| Автор произведения | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| Жанр | Языкознание |
| Серия | |
| Издательство | Языкознание |
| Год выпуска | 0 |
| isbn | 9788075830272 |
Edgar Rice Burroughs
THE TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES (ILLUSTRATED)
Tarzan of the Apes, The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Published by
Books
- Advanced Digital Solutions & High-Quality eBook Formatting -
2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-7583-027-2
Table of Contents
TARZAN OF THE APES
Chapter VII. The Light of Knowledge
Chapter VIII. The Tree-top Hunter
Chapter XI. "King of the Apes"
Chapter XIV. At the Mercy of the Jungle
Chapter XVI. "Most Remarkable"
Chapter XVIII. The Jungle Toll
Chapter XIX. The Call of the Primitive
Chapter XXI. The Village of Torture
Chapter XXII. The Search Party
Chapter XXV. The Outpost of the World
Chapter XXVI. The Height of Civilization
Chapter XXVII. The Giant Again
Chapter I.
Out to Sea
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative.
I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have taken fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it MAY be true.
The yellow, mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead, and the records of the Colonial Office dovetail perfectly with the narrative of my convivial host, and so I give you the story as I painstakingly pieced it out from these several various agencies.
If you do not find it credible you will at least be as one with me in acknowledging that it is unique, remarkable, and interesting.
From the records of the Colonial Office and from the dead man's diary we learn that a certain young English nobleman, whom we shall call John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, was commissioned to make a peculiarly