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What if the jungle feels like home, but the world of drawing rooms hides your most dangerous enemies?
In The Return of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs brings his ape-raised English lord into a world of ships, cities and unfamiliar rules. Tarzan has a title, but little ease among people who live by customs he never learned. His strength and honesty cannot shield him from every threat.
Nikolas Rokoff makes Tarzan his enemy, using plots, disguises and helpers rather than open combat. Jane Porter’s fate remains tied to Tarzan’s, while Paul d’Arnot offers loyal friendship. The adventure carries Tarzan toward Africa, where the jungle offers familiar ground—but danger still waits beyond the world of drawing rooms.
What you’ll discover
- A hero between worlds Follow Tarzan as he searches for his place between jungle life and civilization.
- An enemy behind disguises Watch Rokoff turn cunning and hidden helpers into threats that strength alone cannot answer.
- The hidden city of Opar Enter a place of ritual, danger and treasure, ruled by the priestess La.
- Nobility beyond a title Explore how courage, fairness and loyalty earn Tarzan respect beyond his inherited rank.
- The pull of Africa Follow Tarzan through forest and plain, where his jungle skills set him apart.
Who will love it
You will love this if you enjoy swashbuckling adventure, scheming villains, desert chases, lost cities and a hero who feels as much at home in treetops as in a Paris salon.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A card game on the liner begins a feud
- Paris is more dangerous than the jungle
- An agent in Algeria finds friends in the desert
- Thrown into the sea, Tarzan swims home
- Tarzan becomes king of the Waziri
- Jane at sea and the lifeboat that nobody wants
- Opar, the city of gold and sun worship
- A hero who is half beast and half gentleman
- How the tale moves and what to notice
Who’s who
- TarzanA young man raised by apes who gave up his English title and now seeks work, adventure and a place in the world.
- Nikolas RokoffA Russian spy and blackmailer who hates Tarzan and chases him across continents in disguise.
- Alexis PaulvitchRokoff's timid, sly accomplice, who does the dirty work in the plots.
- Olga de CoudeA young Russian countess, Rokoff's sister, who is afraid of him and grateful to Tarzan.
- Paul D'ArnotA French naval officer and Tarzan's loyal friend, who guides him through Paris life.
- Jane PorterAn American woman bound by a promise to marry Clayton while her heart belongs to Tarzan.
- William Cecil ClaytonAn English lord who holds Tarzan's title and is tested by shipwreck.
- LaThe high priestess of Opar, torn between her religious duty and her curiosity about a stranger.
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Le Retour de Tarzan
by Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1913
Tarzan spots a card-game trap aboard a liner and earns a Russian spy's hatred.
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What does a man raised by apes do when civilization starts to hunt him? In The Return of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs sends his hero to a French liner, the back streets of Paris, the Algerian desert and a lost city of gold.
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A card game on the liner begins a feud
The story opens on a French liner crossing the Atlantic. Tarzan travels as Monsieur Jean C. Tarzan, sad and lonely. He has let William Clayton keep the title of Lord Greystoke, so that Jane Porter can marry in comfort.
In the smoking room he watches a mirror and sees a dark man slip cards into the pocket of Count Raoul de Coude. A second man then accuses the count of cheating. Tarzan marches the first man to the table and clears the count. The two schemers are Nikolas Rokoff and Alexis Paulvitch, Russian spies who want the secrets the count guards for the French war ministry.
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What is The Return of Tarzan about?
It follows Tarzan after he gives up his title for Jane Porter. He travels to Paris, Algeria and back to Africa, chased by the Russian spy Nikolas Rokoff, and finds a lost city of gold.
Do I need to read Tarzan of the Apes first?
It helps but is not required. The Return of Tarzan fills in the key facts as it goes, including how he was raised by apes and why he gave up his title.
Who is Nikolas Rokoff?
Rokoff is a Russian spy and Tarzan's main enemy. He plots against Tarzan in Paris and Africa, and he is also the brother of the Countess Olga de Coude.
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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