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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19990425
Author:MICHAEL DIRDA

Tarzan Forever The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan. By John Taliaferro. Scribner. $30. The final sentences of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes are noble, simple and heartbreaking.

The situation: Even though Jane Porter loves Tarzan, she feels honor-bound to marry William Cecil Clayton, nice-guy heir to the Greystoke title and fortune. At this moment, Tarzan receives an unexpected telegram from his friend D'Arnot: "Fingerprints prove you Greystoke. Congratulations."

Clayton then appears. "Here was the man who had Tarzan's title, and Tarzan's estates, and was going to ...

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