John Seelye

The classic novel of a boy raised by apes in the African jungle, now the basis for a major motion picture, The Legend of Tarzan, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, and Djimon Hounsou. Originally published in 1914, Burroughs’s Tarzan of the Apes, the ideal image of pure animalistic power at odds with the civilized world, appealed to...