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In a hidden city of gold, treasure draws Tarzan toward people who want far more than riches.
In Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Tarzan returns to a lost city deep in Africa. Ancient gold and jewels promise wealth, but Opar is also a place of ritual and sacrifice. Its high priestess, La, feels a powerful pull toward Tarzan, while her duty binds her to the city she rules.
Beyond Opar, greed brings its own dangers. Werper, a Belgian officer, is ready to lie, steal and betray for wealth. Tarzan must protect those who depend on him, including his wife, Jane. With the loyal Waziri at his side, he faces threats that test his strength and cunning—and the bond between his jungle life and his life as Lord Greystoke.
What you’ll discover
- The lure of Opar Enter a hidden city where ancient treasure sits at the heart of danger.
- A priestess pulled apart Meet La, whose feelings for Tarzan clash with her duty to Opar.
- Greed without loyalty Follow Werper into schemes where the hunger for wealth leaves no room for trust.
- A hero between worlds Explore the pull between Lord Greystoke's English ways and Tarzan's life in the wild.
- Bonds worth defending Discover what Jane's affection and the Waziri's steady loyalty mean amid greed and betrayal.
Who will love it
This book is for readers who love fast jungle adventure, daring rescues and fierce animal fights, with scheming villains and a lost city full of gold.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A disgraced officer flees into a slaver's arms
- A false guest overhears the secret of Opar
- Tarzan sheds civilization and hunts by moonlight
- An earthquake buries one man and traps another
- Raiders burn the bungalow while Tarzan is away
- Lost memory turns Tarzan into a wild man
- A priestess, a mad elephant and a captured wife
- Apes, jewels and a race for a ruined farm
- Wild nature and polite civilization pull against each other
- Greed drives the plot and the telling keeps it moving
Who’s who
- TarzanAn English lord raised by apes who goes back to Opar for gold, and loses his memory after a blow to the head.
- Jane ClaytonTarzan's brave wife, who defends her home with a rifle and refuses to give up hope after she is taken captive.
- Albert WerperA Belgian officer and killer who hides behind a false name and wants the treasure of Opar for himself.
- Achmet ZekA cruel Arab raider who hates Tarzan and plans to ransom his wife and seize his gold.
- LaThe High Priestess of Opar, torn between love for Tarzan and fury at the man who scorned her.
- MugambiA giant warrior and loyal servant of Tarzan who fights to protect Jane and then searches for her.
- BasuliThe Waziri chief who carries the gold home and gathers an army to hunt the raiders.
- Abdul MourakAn Abyssinian commander who is hunting Achmet Zek and bargains with Werper for buried gold.
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Tarzán y las joyas de Opar
by Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1916
A Belgian thief trails Tarzan toward a lost city's gold, where a blow to the head wipes out the ape-man's memory.
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What happens when the strongest man in the jungle cannot remember his own name? That is the problem at the center of Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, an adventure by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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A disgraced officer flees into a slaver's arms
Lieutenant Albert Werper has been sent to a lonely post in the Congo instead of facing a court martial. Six months of isolation turn his shame into hatred, and he fixes it on his captain. One evening he shoots the captain dead just as the older man reaches out a calming hand.
Werper kills a sentry at the gate and runs into the forest. Exhausted, he is found by Achmet Zek, an Arab raider of ivory and slaves. Werper lies, claims he hates his own people, and offers his skills as a soldier. Zek hates the Belgian forces that have hunted him, so he listens.
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Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/tarzan-and-the-jewels-of-opar.
Burroughs, E. R. (2026). Tarzan and the jewels of Opar. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tarzan-and-the-jewels-of-opar (Original work published 1916)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tarzan-and-the-jewels-of-opar.
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What is Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar about?
Tarzan goes to the lost city of Opar for gold, loses his memory in an earthquake, and is trailed by a thief. Meanwhile raiders attack his farm and capture his wife Jane.
Who is Werper in Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar?
Albert Werper is a Belgian lieutenant who murders his captain and joins the raider Achmet Zek. He poses as a hunter named Frecoult and follows Tarzan to steal the treasure of Opar.
Who is La of Opar?
La is the High Priestess of Opar, a lost city of sun worshippers. She loves Tarzan, but when he rejects her and takes her sacred knife, her love turns to a hunger for revenge.
The author
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1875–1950 · American adventure novelist
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American writer born in Chicago in 1875. He wrote novels about Tarzan and novels set on Mars. His first Mars story appeared in 1912 and became the book A Princess of Mars in 1917. He later lived in California and died in Encino in 1950.
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