| Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Illustrated Contributor(s): Burroughs, Edgar Rice (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798591681050 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $9.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.61 lbs) 234 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. It first appeared in the November and December issues of All-Story Cavalier Weekly in 1916, and the first book publication was by McClurg in 1918. Tarzan returns to Opar, the source of the gold where a lost colony of fabled Atlantis is located, in order to make good on some financial reverses he has recently suffered. While Atlantis itself sank beneath the waves thousands of years ago, the workers of Opar continued to mine all of the gold, which means there is a rather huge stockpile but which is now lost to the memory of the Oparians and only Tarzan knows its secret location.A greedy, outlawed Belgian army officer, Albert Werper, in the employ of a criminal Arab, secretly follows Tarzan to Opar. There, Tarzan loses his memory after being struck on the head by a falling rock in the treasure room during an earthquake. On encountering La, the high priestess who is the servant of the Flaming God of Opar, and who is also very beautiful, Tarzan once again rejects her love which enrages her and she tries to have him killed; she had fallen in love with the apeman during their first encounter and La and her high priests are not going to allow Tarzan to escape their sacrificial knives this time.In the meanwhile, Jane has been kidnapped by the Arab and wonders what is keeping her husband from once again coming to her rescue. A now amnesiac Tarzan and Werper escape from Opar, bearing away the sacrificial knife of Opar which La and some retainers set out to recover. There is intrigue and counter intrigue the rest of the way. |
