Tarzan and the City of Gold

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name = Tarzan and the City of Gold
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration of "Tarzan and the City of Gold"
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 = Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
release_date = 1933
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 316 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = Tarzan Triumphant
followed_by = Tarzan and the Lion Man

"Tarzan and the City of Gold" is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the sixteenth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Argosy from March through April, 1932

Plot summary

After encountering and befriending a warrior of the lost city of Athne, the City of Ivory, Tarzan is captured by the insane yet beautiful queen Nemone of its hereditary enemy, Cathne, the City of Gold. This novel is perhaps best known for two scenes; in the first, Tarzan is forced to fight the strongest man in the Cathne in its arena. While an ordinary man might have been in trouble, Tarzan easily overpowers his antagonist. The second scene, in which Tarzan is forced to fight a lion, starts with the ape man being forced to run away from a hunting lion, which will hunt him down and kill him. Tarzan at first believes he can outrun the beast (lions tire after the first 100 yards at top speed). This lion, however, is of a breed specifically selected for endurance, and ultimately Tarzan must turn to face him, though aware that without a knife he can do little but delay the inevitable. Fortunately his own lion ally, Jad-Bal-Ja, whom he had raised from a cub, arrives and intervenes, fighting the Queen's hunting lion and saving Tarzan. Nemone, who believes her life is linked to that of her pet, kills herself when it dies.

Unusually for lost cities in the Tarzan series, which are typically visited but once, Cathne and Athne reappear in a later Tarzan adventure, "Tarzan the Magnificent". (The only other lost city Tarzan visits more than once is Opar.)

Comic adaptations

The book has been adapted into comic form by Gold Key Comics in "Tarzan" nos. 186-187.

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
*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=133 | date=1998

External links

* [http://www.erblist.com/erblist/tzcitygoldsum.html Edgar Rice Burroughs Summary Project page for "Tarzan and the City of Gold"]