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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19990411
Author:Michael Dirda

TARZAN FOREVER The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan

By John Taliaferro Scribner. 400 pp. $30 Surely everyone agrees that the most thrilling line in popular literature is "Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" (If you don't recognize this sentence from The Hound of the Baskervilles, you now know what to read on your next holiday.) That said, the final sentences of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes are as perfectly noble, simple and heartbreaking as -- what? Hamlet's dying words? Plato's valedictory praise of Socrates at the end of the Phaedo? It ...

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