Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by William Henry Davis, Thomas Baines and Odilon Redon. Twelve episodes from the years the first novel skipped: Tarzan as a boy among the apes, learning what a lie is, what a god might be, and why the she-ape he grew up beside will never be his. Burroughs went back into his own invention to fill in a childhood, and produced the strangest book of the series — closer to folklore than to adventure. The jungle here is not a stage for fights but a school with very few lessons and no mercy. Fifty-six plates of forest interiors and solitary figures by painters including Shishkin and Böcklin run through the volume, giving the jungle school its proper company of trees and quiet watchers.