Tarzan and the Madman

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Tarzan and the Madman
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Author Edgar Rice Burroughs
Illustrator Reed Crandall
Cover artist Reed Crandall
LanguageEnglish
SeriesTarzan series
Genre Adventure
Publisher Canaveral Press
Publication date
June 15, 1964 [1]
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages236
Preceded by Tarzan and the Foreign Legion  
Followed by Tarzan and the Castaways  

Tarzan and the Madman is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the twenty-third in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. Written from January to February 1940, the story was never published in Burroughs' lifetime. [2] [3] The book was first published in hardcover by Canaveral Press in June 1964 and in paperback by Ballantine Books in February 1965. [3] [4] [5]

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Plot summary

Tarzan tracks down a man who has been mistaken for him. The man is under the delusion that he is Tarzan, and he is living in a lost city inhabited by people descended from early Portuguese explorers. Burroughs had previously employed the plot devices of a lost city and a Tarzan double or impostor in earlier Tarzan novels.

Notes

  1. "Books—Authors". The New York Times : 34. June 4, 1964.
  2. Edgar Rice Burroughs Summary Project page for Tarzan and the Madman
  3. 1 2 ERB C.H.A.S.E.R ENCYCLOPEDIA for Tarzan and the Madman
  4. Tarzan and the Madman title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  5. Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 133.
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Tarzan and the Madman
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