Tarzan, lord of the suburbs

Modern Language Quarterly

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 479-504

  Jurca, Catherine ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 80054713623     PISSN: 00267929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00267929-57-3-479     Document Type: Article

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53. Subsequent novels demonstrate Tarzan's willingness to live with the "magnificent" Waziri tribe, whom he first befriends in The Return of Tarzan (serialized 1913; rpt. New York Ballantine, 1963)
54. Tarzan battles in Tarzan of the Apes. See Torgovnick, 55-7, for a more detailed account of Tarzan's domestication of the Waziri.
55. Advertisement, Los Angeles Times, 1 October 1922, V14.
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57. Advertisement, Los Angela Times, 8 October 1922, V13.
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59. why Tarzana Lots Are the Best Buy on Vmtura Bouhard (Unpaginated pamphlet, 1920s).