Edgar Rice Burroughs and Tarzan
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-4908-8 (ISBN)
Like millions of other readers and moviegoers, as a youngster the late Robert W. Fenton loved swinging through the jungle with Tarzan. As an adult his interest was revived when he bought Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs' original office-estate in Tarzana, California, and began writing a biography of Burroughs. Originally titled The Big Swingers, it was the first full-scale, commercially published account of ERB's life and work.
Here is Fenton's 1967 biography, back in print, as a wonderful source for a new generation of readers. Burroughs' early years were far from promising--he was dropped from school, was undistinguished as a cavalryman at Fort Grant, lost out in gold mining, and had little success as a salesman. He knew nothing about writing, but decided to try it anyway--and created Tarzan, one of the most famous characters of all time. A new foreword by George T. McWhorter and new photographs--there are 66 in all--are included.
Robert W. Fenton wrote articles for Time, published his own newspaper (The European Traveler) and founded Teen Features Syndicate. He died in 1968.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface
Prologue
1 Formative Years (1875–1897)
2 Search for Adventure (1898–1904)
3 A Lord’s Trial (1905–1911)
4 Like Ulysses…
5 The Ape-man Cometh (1912)
6 Breakthrough (1913)
7 Tarzan and Friend
8 Those Crazy Moving Pictures (1913–1918)
9 On to the City of Gold (1918)
10 Tarzan bei den Affen (1919–1932)
11 King of the Serials (1919–19250
12 The Girl from Hollywood and Other Romances (1916–1922)
13 Tarzan Swings (1920–1929)
14 Tarzan of the World (1920–1929)
15 The Mid-Rancho Period (1922–1929)
16 The Comic Strip (1928–)
17 Two Women (1931–1933)
18 The One and Only (1932–1943)
19 On Location in Africa (1933–1934)
20 New Adventures (1934–1938)
21 Monkey Business (1935–1950)
22 Search for the Fountain of Youth (1935–1937)
23 Pre-Pearl Harbor (1938–1941)
24 The Great Adventure (1941–1945)
25 Last Years (1946–1950)
Epilogue
APPENDICES
A: Chapter Notes
B: 99 Days
C: War Correspondent
D: Proposal for a National Reserve Army
E: Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs
F: Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Ape-English Dictionary
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.9.2010 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 66 photos, appendices, notes, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 445 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7864-4908-X / 078644908X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-4908-8 / 9780786449088 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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