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Burroughs had never heard of Rousseau's noble savage or Nietzsche's

Sources, including the legend of Romulus and Remus, wild children of early Rome Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves in Kipling's The Jungle Book and travelogues of colonial Africa from the end of the nineteenthД¬entury. More truthfully, his tale was guided by a number of distinguishable

'I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or any other,' he begins his chronicle of an orphaned child raised by apes. He was the most widely read American author of the first half of the twentieth century. Considering that Burroughs's titles have been published in more than thirty languages and given the broad circulation of his stories in magazines and comics, there can be little question that A formal accounting of Burroughs's total sales has never been made, but the most conservative estimate is thirty million books sold during his lifetime a more generous Six at the center of the Earth, and five on Venus. And so Burroughs obliged: twenty-three more Tarzan novels over the next thirty years, plus another fifty non-Tarzans, including eleven set on Mars, Tarzan one of the best adventure tales ever and pleaded for more. The reception exceeded the wildestДreams of author and editors alike and triggered a phenomenon unprecedented in publishing history.

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It ran in full in the October 1912 issue of The All-Story, taking up virtually the entire magazine. Tarzan of theДЄpes, written when he was thirty-six years old, was only the third story Burroughs submitted for publication. In his case, though, it took far fewer to hit the mark. 'If you write one story, it may be bad if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor,' Edgar Rice Burroughs lectured young authors.

The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan