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Tarzan and the Lion Man (Tarzan #17)

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Title:Tarzan and the Lion Man (Tarzan #17)
Author:
Burroughs, Edgar Rice   
(29 of 39 for author by title)
Tarzan and the Lost Empire (Tarzan #12)
Tarzan and the Leopard Men (Tarzan #18)
Illustrator:
St. John, J. Allen   
(5 of 5 for author by title)
Tarzan and the Golden Lion (Tarzan #9)
Published:   1934
Publisher:Grosset & Dunlap
Tags:adventure, Africa, fiction, Tarzan (Fictional character)
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Tarzan and his lion companion Jad-bal-ja discover a mad scientist with a city of talking gorillas. To create additional havoc, a Hollywood film crew sets out to shoot a Tarzan movie in Africa and brings along an actor who is an exact double of the apeman, but is his opposite in courage and determination.

Later, as John Clayton, Tarzan visits Hollywood to find himself in a screen test for a role in a Tarzan movie. He is deemed unsuitable for the lead role because he is “not the type.” [Suggest a different description.]

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Author Bio for Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.

Aiming his work at the pulps, Burroughs had his first story, Under the Moons of Mars, serialized by Frank Munsey in the February to July 1912 issues of The All-Story—under the name "Norman Bean" to protect his reputation. Under the Moons of Mars inaugurated the Barsoom series and earned Burroughs US$400 (over $10,000 today). It was first published as a book by A. C. McClurg of Chicago in 1917, entitled A Princess of Mars, after three Barsoom sequels had appeared as serials, and McClurg had published the first four serial Tarzan novels as books.

Burroughs soon took up writing full-time and by the time the run of Under the Moons of Mars had finished he had completed two novels, including...

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