Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

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name = Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration of "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar"
author = Edgar Rice Burroughs
illustrator = J. Allen St. John
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country = United States
language = English
series = Tarzan series
genre = Adventure novel
publisher = A. C. McClurg
release_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.

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.

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.

Film adaptations

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

Comic adaptations

The book has been adapted into comic form on a number of occasions. Notable adaptations include those of Gold Key Comics in "Tarzan" nos. 159-161 and Marvel in "Tarzan" nos. 1-6 and 10-11.

References

*cite book | last=Bleiler | first=Everett | authorlink=Everett F. Bleiler | title=The Checklist of Fantastic Literature | location=Chicago | publisher=Shasta Publishers | pages=67 | date=1948

External links

* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/92 Text of the novel at Project Gutenberg]
* [http://www.erblist.com/erblist/tzoparsum.html Edgar Rice Burroughs Summary Project page for "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar"]