''Tarzan the Magnificent'' is a book by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the twenty-first 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 ...

. It was originally published as two separate stories serialized in different pulp magazines; "Tarzan and the Magic Men" in '' Argosy'' from September to October, 1936, and "Tarzan and the Elephant Men" in ''

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'' from November 1937 to January 1938. The two stories were combined under the title ''Tarzan the Magnificent'' in the first book edition, published in 1939 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. In order of writing, the book follows ''

Tarzan's Quest ''Tarzan's Quest'' is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the nineteenth in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. Originally serialized in six parts, as ''Tarzan and the Immortal Men'', in ''The Blue Book ...

'' and precedes ''

Tarzan and the Forbidden City ''Tarzan and the Forbidden City'' is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the twentieth in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. Plot summary A young man named Brian Gregory has disappeared in Africa, loo ...

''. In order of book publication it falls between the latter and ''

Tarzan and the Foreign Legion ''Tarzan and the Foreign Legion'' is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the twenty-second in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The book, written June–September 1944 while Burroughs was living in Hon ...

''. The novel's plot bears no relation to that of the 1960 film of the same title.

Plot summary

Tarzan encounters a lost race with uncanny mental powers, after which he revisits the lost cities of Cathne and Athne, previously encountered in the earlier novel '' Tarzan and the City of Gold''. As usual, he is backed up by Chief Muviro and his faithful Waziri warriors.

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ERBzine.com Illustrated Bibliography entry for Edgar Rice Burroughs' ''Tarzan the Magnificent''

* ttp://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500211h.html Text of the novel at Project Gutenberg Australia 1939 short story collections Fantasy short story collections Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs Short story collections by Edgar Rice Burroughs Novels first published in serial form Works originally published in Blue Book (magazine) Works originally published in Argosy (magazine) {{1930s-adventure-novel-stub