''Tarzan and the Madman'' is a novel by American writer

Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best-known for creating the characters Tarzan and John Carter, ...

, the twenty-third in his series of twenty-four books about the title character

Tarzan Tarzan (John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adv ...

. Written from January to February 1940, the story was never published in Burroughs' lifetime.Edgar Rice Burroughs Summary Project page for ''Tarzan and the Madman''
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/ref> It was first published in hardcover by Canaveral Press in June 1964, and in paperback by

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in February 1965.

Plot summary

Tarzan tracks down a man who has been mistaken for him. The man is under the delusion that ''he'' is Tarzan, and he is living in a lost city inhabited by people descended from early Portuguese explorers. The plot devices of a lost city and a Tarzan "double" or impostor had been used by Burroughs in some previous Tarzan novels.

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* 1964 American novels 1964 fantasy novels Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs Novels published posthumously {{1960s-fantasy-novel-stub