The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, is "the best known character in the whole of fiction." As John Taliaferro asserts in his Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic, "There is no question that [Tarzan of...

In the late 1800's, a fourteen-year-old Ozark mountain boy spends the summer trying to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus.

In the not-too-distant future, three astronauts land on what appears to be a planet just like Earth. But things are not as they seem. On this world humans are savage beasts and apes rule as their civilized masters.

Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.

A band of mischievous monkeys steals every one of a peddler's caps while he takes a nap under a tree.

Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and habitats of orangutans and gazelles.

Curious George runs away from the zoo, and after his escape, he decided to take a bus and find his friend, the man in the yellow hat. He looks for him in a restaurant, and ends up working there for just a short period of time before things start to go wrong.

Marvin the ape slips out of the zoo and finds he likes it on the outside, where he easily blends into city lifestyles.

Accompanied by more than 100 pictures, the text relates the plight of apes from the forests of Africa and Indonesia to a manmade world of zoos, nightclubs, medical labs, private homes, and animal orphanages

Describes the habitat, lifestyle, infancy, predators, relationship with humans, and future of this intelligent primate.