书名：Tarzan of the Apes人猿泰山

作者：Edgar Rice Burroughs埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2008
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451531025
商品尺寸：10.6 x 2 x 17.1 cm
包装：简装
页数：306 （以实物为准）
Tarzan of the Apes《人猿泰山》是“美国科幻小说之父”埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯的传世之作，一部形象的人类进化史，诠释爱与人性的回归。书中巴勒斯一方面对人类社会的弊端感到深恶痛绝，另一方面又指出了非洲原始丛林对“泰山”人性发展的限制。此小说已多次被拍为电影、电视剧和动画。

本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，由Gore Vidal写导言，University Michael Meyer写后记，内容完整无删减，书本轻巧便携。
Experience the legend of Tarzan in this thrilling adventure from Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Set amid the vibrant colors and sounds of the African jungle, this classic work, rich in suspense and action, has beckoned generations of readers on a glorious journey to romance and pure adventure. This is the story of the ape-man Tarzan, raised in the wild by the great ape Kala, and how he learns the secrets of the jungle to survive—how to talk with the animals, swing through the trees, and fight the great predators. As Tarzan grows up, he makes many friends, including Tantor the elephant and Numa the lion. When this paradise is invaded by white men, Tarzan’s life changes, for in this group is Jane, the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. Speaking directly to our childhood fantasies, this exhilarating work takes us to that faraway place in our minds where dreams prevail, and where we too can be masters of our own domain.
With an Introduction by Gore Vidal
And an Afterword by Michael Meyer
Review
“[Burroughs has] a gift very few writers of any kind possess: he can describe action vividly.”  —Gore Vidal
Tarzan of the Apes《人猿泰山》讲述了泰山被珍妮的爱感化成一个正常人，但并不代表他们的儿子杰克也能同正常人一样。相反，杰克对于野蛮的生活充满了渴望，一直向往着丛林生活，有着泰山从前一样的野蛮思想和行动。但森林之王只有一个，他就是人猿泰山，所以杰克的举动势必会受到来自多方面的威胁。人猿泰山用他从珍妮那儿学来的爱同样感化了自己的儿子，一家人从此幸福地生活在一起。

埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯（Edgar Rice Burroughs，1875－1950）美国作家，在美国文学史上的地位虽然不高，但是他的《人猿泰山》长篇系列小说却可称得上是经典之作。自问世以来，一直经久不衰，深受广大读者喜爱。巴勒斯开始写作是在上世纪的一十年代，除写《人猿泰山》系列之外，还有《火星》等系列科幻小说。其文风观点介于乐观与悲观之间，作品兼有科幻、冒险成分，至今仍脍炙人口。

After serving a short time in the Seventh U.S. Cavalry, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was a shopkeeper, gold miner, cowboy, and policeman before becoming a full-time writer. Tarzan of the Apes (1914) and its twenty-two sequels have sold more than twenty-five million copies in fifty-eight languages. Author of numerous other jungle and science fiction novels and novellas, including The Land That Time Forgot, Burroughs had a writing career that spanned almost thirty years, with his last novel, The Land of Terror, being published in 1941. He died in Tarzana, California, the town named for his legendary hero.

Gore Vidal was the author of numerous novels—the first, Williwaw, written when he was twenty-one—as well as scripts for film, television, and the stage, including the extremely successful The Best Man and Visit to Small Planet. He is perhaps best known for his historical novels, including Burr (1973), 1876 (1976), and Lincoln (1984). He won the National Book Award in 1993 for his book of essays United States (1952-1992).

Michael Meyer, Ph.D., is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Among his books, Several More Lives to Live: Thoreau’s Political Reputation in America was awarded the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize by the American Studies Association. In addition to The Bedford Introduction to Literature, his edited volumes include Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings.

I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative.
I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have taken fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it may be true.
The yellow, mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead, and the records of the Colonial Office dovetail perfectly with the narrative of my convivial host, and so I give you the story as I painstakingly pieced it out from these several various agencies.
If you do not find it credible you will at least be as one with me in acknowledging that it is unique, remarkable, and interesting.
From the records of the Colonial Office and from the dead man’s diary we learn that a certain young English nobleman, whom we shall call John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, was commissioned to make a peculiarly delicate investigation of conditions in a British West Coast African Colony from whose simple native inhabitants another European power was known to be recruiting soldiers for its native army, which it used solely for the forcible collection of rubber and ivory from the savage tribes along the Congo and the Aruwimi.
The natives of the British Colony complained that many of their young men were enticed away through the medium of fair and glowing promises, but that few if any ever returned to their families.
The Englishmen in Africa went even further, saying that these poor blacks were held in virtual slavery, since after their terms of enlistment expired their ignorance was imposed upon by their white officers, and they were told that they had yet several years to serve.