It was true that Tarzan and Tantor were the best of friends, and that Tarzan never yet had tasted of the flesh of the elephant; but the Gomangani evidently had slain one, and as they were eating of the flesh of their kill, Tarzan was assailed by no doubts as to the ethics of his doing likewise, should he have the opportunity. Had he known that the elephant had died of sickness several days before the blacks discovered the carcass, he might not have been so keen to partake of the feast, for Tarzan of the Apes was no carrion-eater. Hunger, however, may blunt the most epicurean taste, and Tarzan was not exactly an epicure. ~~~ Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public's imagination. Jungle Tales of Tarzan, first published in 1919, is the sixth book of Burroughs' tales of the ape-man. This collection of short stories explores the life of the young Tarzan, his adventurous boyhood, and teen years among the great apes and other wild creatures that were his only family. American novelist EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950) wrote dozens of adventure, crime, and science fiction novels that are still beloved today, including Tarzan of the Apes (1912), At the Earth's Core (1914), A Princess of Mars (1917), The Land That Time Forgot (1924), and Pirates of Venus (1934). He is reputed to have been reading a comic book when he died.

エドガー・ライス・バローズが描く本作は、野生と文明の狭間で揺れる少年の魂の形成史です。飢えや生存本能という剥き出しの自然界で、ターザンがいかにして高潔な倫理観と野生美を同時に獲得したか。その心理的葛藤は、単なる活劇を超えた文学的深みを備えています。 映像化作品のダイナミックなアクションに対し、原作の真髄は五感を刺激する緻密な心理描写にあります。死生観を巡る生々しい考察は、テキストでしか味わえない凄みです。映像で彼を知ったなら、次は文字を通じてその深淵なる内面を覗き、真のターザンと出会うべきです。