Tarzan of the Apes »

Jason Haslam is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Dalhousie University.

At the end of Tarzan of the Apes, the author promises, "The further adventures of Tarzan, and what came of his noble act of self-renunciation, will be told in the next book of Tarzan." The Return of Tarzan is that book.

New York Times Book Review

Crowded with impossibilities as the tale is, Mr. Burroughs has told it so well, and has so succeeded in carrying his readers with him, that there are few who will not look forward eagerly to the promised sequel. --New York Times review, May 1915; Books of the Century