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Tarzan book7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Tarzan's world is not all boyhood innocence: it also "embodies a powerful emblem of past white Western imperialism and, correspondingly, of the present colonialization of the world by American culture" (Abate & Wannamaker, 5). ![]() For over 100 years, Tarzan has remained a vivid figure in our popular imagination. But Tarzan enjoyed many revivals in print as well in 1963 "one out of every thirty paperbacks sold was a Tarzan novel" (Torgovnick, 42). One producer of Tarzan films, Sol Lesser, described Tarzan's global market saturation with only slight hyperbole that "there is always a Tarzan picture playing within a radius of 50 miles of any given spot in the world - in Arab villages, African bush theatres and in pampas settlements down the Argentine way" (quoted in Abate & Wannamaker, 3). Tarzan's relationship with the movies - beginning in 1918, during the early years of popular film - was especially rich. Beginning with the novels, but quickly translating to film and beyond, Tarzan soon had his own merchandise, piracies, and international adaptations (including Bollywood films and Japanese manga). Tarzan is one of the most recognizable pop cultural icons of the 20th century. First edition run of all 24 novels in the Tarzan series, including TARZAN OF THE APES in the rare original dust jacket and five inscribed books - along with Burroughs's rare 1917 AUTO-BIOGRAPHY and two further Tarzan titles. ![]()
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