Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

Dust-jacket illustration of Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Author Edgar Rice Burroughs
Illustrator J. Allen St. John
Country United States
Language English
Series Tarzan series
Genre(s) Adventure novel
Publisher A. C. McClurg
Publication date 1918
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 350 pp
ISBN NA
Preceded by The Son of Tarzan
Followed by Jungle Tales of Tarzan

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was published in 1916.

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[edit] Plot summary

In the previous novel Tarzan and Jane's son, Jack Clayton, a.k.a. Korak, had come into his own. In this novel Tarzan returns to Opar, the source of the gold where a lost colony of fabled Atlantis is located. However, while Atlantis itself sank beneath the waves thousands of years ago, the workers of Opar have continued to mine all of the gold, which means there is a rather huge stockpile. Tarzan follows a greedy Belgian and an Arab into the jungle, where this criminal pair manages to stumble upon this lost city. John Clayton loses his memory as an after effect of a fight, and La, the high priestess who was the servant of the Flaming god of Opar, and who is also very beautiful, takes advantage of his amnesia. She had fallen in lust with the ape man during their first encounter. But while his amnesia opens the door for La's lustful advances, her high priests are not going to allow Tarzan to escape their sacrificial knives this time. In the meanwhile, Jane is in trouble and wonders what is keeping her husband from once again coming to her rescue.

[edit] Copyright

The copyright for this story has expired in the United States, and thus now resides in the public domain there. The text is available via Project Gutenberg.

[edit] Film adaptations

Burroughs' novel was the basis of the silent film Tarzan the Tiger (1929).

[edit] References

  • Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 67. 

[edit] External links

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Preceded by
The Son of Tarzan		 Tarzan series
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar		 Succeeded by
Jungle Tales of Tarzan


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Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan novels
Tarzan collections
Tarzan short stories
Other jungle adventure
The Cave Girl (1925) • The Eternal Lover (1925) • Jungle Girl (1932) • The Man Eater (1935) • The Lad and the Lion (1938)
Martian series
A Princess of Mars (1917) • The Gods of Mars (1918) • The Warlord of Mars (1919) • Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920) • The Chessmen of Mars (1922) • The Master Mind of Mars (1928) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1931) • Swords of Mars (1936) • Synthetic Men of Mars (1940) • Llana of Gathol (1948) • John Carter of Mars (1964)
Pellucidar series
At the Earth's Core (1914) • Pellucidar (1915) • Tanar of Pellucidar (1929) • Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929) • Back to the Stone Age (1937) • Land of Terror (1944) • Savage Pellucidar (1963)
Venus series
Pirates of Venus (1934) • Lost on Venus (1935) • Carson of Venus (1939) • Escape on Venus (1946) • Wizard of Venus (1964)
Other science fiction
Beyond Thirty (1916) • The Land That Time Forgot (1918) • The People That Time Forgot (1918) • Out of Time’s Abyss (1918) • The Moon Maid (1926) • The Monster Men (1929) • The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw (1937) • Beyond the Farthest Star (1941)
Westerns
The Bandit of Hell's Bend (1926) • The War Chief (1927) • Apache Devil (1933) • The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County (1940)
Historical novels
The Outlaw of Torn (1914/1927) • I Am a Barbarian (1967)
Other works
The Mucker (1914/16) • The Girl from Farris's (1916) • The Oakdale Affair (1917) • The Efficiency Expert (1921) • The Girl from Hollywood (1923) • The Mad King (1926) • The Rider (1937) • Pirate Blood (1970) • Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M (1998) • Marcia of the Doorstep (1999) • You Lucky Girl! (1999) • Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder (2001)