Tarzan of the Apes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 28 original MP3 tracks, 9:20:59 running time and a link to listen.
Tarzan of the Apes, credited to Edgar Rice Burroughs, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
Librivox recording of Tarzan of the Apes. Read by Mark F. Smith Tarzan of the Apes is Burroughs’ exciting, if improbable, story of an English lord, left by the death of his stranded parents in the hands of a motherly African ape who raises him as her own. Although he is aware that he is different from the apes of his tribe, who are neither white nor hairless, he nevertheless regards them as his “people.” When older, larger, stronger apes decide that he an undesirable to be killed or expelled from the tribe, it is fortunate that Tarzan has learned the use of primitive weapons. Although small and weak by ape standards, Tarzan is a human of god-like strength and agility to men who discover him. By studying these people, he gradually decides he is not an ape at all, but human. And when he meets Jane, a beautiful American girl marooned with her father and friends on the hostile coast of Africa, Tarzan conceives love for her. When they are unexpectedly rescued before Tarzan can find a way to reveal his feelings to Jane, he determines to become civilized and follow her into the world of people – to find her and wed her, though he must cross continents and oceans, and compete with two other suitors for her hand. This story was the subject of a successful film in 1932, with Tarzan being played by Johnny Weissmuller, who acted in a further eleven Tarzan films. According to Weissmuller in an interview with Mike Douglas, his famous ape-call was audio stitched together from a soprano, an alto, and a hog-caller! Summary by Mark F. Smith
Recording facts
- Recording title: Tarzan of the Apes
- Author credits: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 28
- Listed recording duration: 9:20:59
Catalogue topics
- Tarzan
- apes
- jungle
- shipwreck
Opening tracks: first 24 of 28
- Ch 01: Out of the Sea — 23:18
- Ch 02: The Savage Home — 20:43
- Ch 03: Life and Death — 14:53
- Ch 04: The Apes — 16:22
- Ch 05: The White Ape — 17:45
- Ch 06: Jungle Battles — 14:14
- Ch 07: The Light of Knowledge — 25:54
- Ch 08: The Tree-Top Hunter — 12:38
- Ch 09: Man and Man — 23:35
- Ch 10: The Fear-Phantom — 11:37
- Ch 11: King of the Apes — 22:42
- Ch 12: Man's Reason — 17:58
- Ch 13: His Own Kind — 29:37
- Ch 14: At the Mercy of the Jungle — 21:26
- Ch 15: The Forest God — 12:06
- Ch 16: Most Remarkable — 21:00
- Ch 17: Burials — 22:07
- Ch 18: The Jungle Toll — 23:05
- Ch 19: Call of the Primitive — 22:40
- Ch 20: Heredity — 26:02
- Ch 21: The Village of Torture — 13:30
- Ch 22: The Search Party — 22:20
- Ch 23: Brother Men — 18:28
- Ch 24: Lost Treasure — 17:09
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