Who wrote the Tarzan books?
Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins is a collection of two Tarzan novellas by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, for younger readers. It was originally published as two children's books, "The Tarzan Twins" by Voland in October 1927, and "Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins, with Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion", by Whitman in March 1936. These were brought together in November 1963 under the title of "Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins" in the first complete edition. Despite the gap in when they were written and first published, the events of the two stories occur in the same
Tarzan mentions after this that John Clayton is itself a fictitious name, invented by 'Tarzan' to mask his real identity. While "Tarzan of the Apes" met with some critical success, subsequent books in the series received a cooler reception and have been criticized for being derivative and formulaic. The characters are often said to be two-dimensional, the dialogue wooden, and the storytelling devices (such as excessive reliance on coincidence) strain credulity. According to author Rudyard Kipling (who himself wrote stories of a feral child, "The Jungle Book"'s Mowgli), Burroughs wrote "Tarzan of the Apes" just so that he could "find out