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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Book Overview: 

This is the fifth of Burrough’s Tarzan novels.

Tarzan finds himself bereft of his fortune and resolves to return to the jewel-room of Opar, leaving Jane to face unexpected danger at home.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .head ached; but otherwise he felt no ill effects from the blow that had felled him. The accident he did not recall, nor did he recall aught of what had led up to it.

He let his hands grope unfamiliarly over his limbs, his torso, and his head. He felt of the quiver at his back, the knife in his loin cloth. Something struggled for recognition within his brain. Ah! he had it. There was something missing. He crawled about upon the floor, feeling with his hands for the thing that instinct warned him was gone. At last he found it—the heavy war spear that in past years had formed so important a feature of his daily life, almost of his very existence, so inseparably had it been connected with his every action since the long-gone day that he had wrested his first spear from the body of a black victim of his savage training.

Tarzan was sure that there was another and more lovely world than that which was confined to the darkness of the four sto. . . Read More

Community Reviews

This is it. This is where the Tarzan series really gets going, for me. I guess for some Graystoke purists, this is probably the demise of Tarzan as a "serious work" because it basically becomes nonsense dime novel fiction from this point on, but to me, that's ERB at his best.

This book has everything

A great Tarzan story featuring another visit to Opar, a weasely Belgian, a "mad" Arab (not Abdul Alhazred, but the angry Achmet Zek LOL), and La, the beautiful High Priestess to the Flaming God.

After an earthquake strikes Opar, causing a cave-in within the unknown chamber of gold that Tarzan discov

I think a case could be made that this is the first of the Tarzan series novels. Obviously it's not the first Tarzan novel -- it has that #5 right there in the title -- but the first 2-3 books were the extended origin story, #4 was a generational shift (and, for the record, at no point whatsoever in

"Tarzan always came back to Nature in the spirit of a lover keeping a long deferred tryst after a period behind prison walls."

For the first time, this book starts with very little connection to the ones before except for the city of opar part. Story is entertaining as ever but some of the hardships

Tarzan like many of us today needs a little cash his businesses in England are.. .Let's say the cash flow is not in balance with the expenses just a minor temporary difficulty no problem. The apeman knows where to get a ton of gold the lost city of Opar. He has been inside the hidden citadel before

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