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...

Set in West Africa, this is the story of Scobie, an assistant police commissioner, and his personal and professional corruption.

Cambridge England, 1905. The only female student in Cambridge University's medical program, Jane Porter is far more comfortable in a lab coat dissecting corpses than she is a corset and gown sipping afternoon tea. A budding paleoanthropologist, Jane dreams of traveling the globe in search of fossils that will prove the evolutionary theories of her scientific her, Charles Darwin. When dashing American explorer Ral Conrath invites Jane and her father...