Read Tarzan of the Apes in Englishwith every sentence explained

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs was first published in 1912. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked intermediate and filed under fantasy, thriller and suspense and young adult. It runs to about 85,500 words.

Born an English lord. Raised by apes. King of the jungle.

When a mutiny strands John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, and his young wife Alice on a lonely stretch of the West African coast, they build a cabin at the edge of the forest and try to survive. Their baby son will grow up in a world they could never have imagined.

Adopted by Kala, a grieving she-ape, the boy becomes Tarzan, "White-Skin". He learns to swing through the trees, to hunt and to fight the great bulls of the tribe. Yet in his parents' abandoned cabin he finds strange things called books, and slowly, on his own, he teaches himself to read. Then, one day, other humans arrive on the shore.

Tarzan of the Apes launched one of the most famous heroes ever created, the star of dozens of films from the silent era to Disney.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday English feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.