In 2012, Tarzan, the world-famous literary hero, turned 100 years old. Could the author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, a failed businessman who decided to try his hand at the literary field, imagine what a bestseller his novel about Tarzan would turn out to be? The first novel, Tarzan of the Apes, about the adventures of a descendant of English lords who grew up in the jungle, was followed by 23 sequels. The image of a strong, handsome, fearless and fair hero, whom one wants to imitate, immediately won the sympathy of readers. The writer gives Tarzan the opportunity to live both in the fabulous jungle and in the human world; and he gradually not only becomes acquainted with the laws and benefits of civilization, but also puts them to the test. This edition includes Burroughs’s first three novels about Tarzan; they are published in new translations.