Tarzan Guard of the Jungle

Book excerpt: TARZAN was disturbed-for into the very heart of his own domain there had come a party of communists bent upon looting the treasure-vaults of Opar of their fabled gold, and using thise wealth in conquering the world for the communist cause. But the Russian leader of the party, one Peter Zveri, secretly planned to betray his comrades and make himself emperor of Africa, with his beautiful secretary Zora Drinov as his empress. NOTE: When the Tarzan series appeared in paperback form from Ballantine Books in the 1960's, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. decided to "tone" down ethnic content. So, most of the books in the series were censored. These censored texts are the ones which Gutenberg.org (an Internet Public Domain story site) picked up and which most reprinters of the stories are using. We always go back to the original sources of the text, whether magazine, First Edition book, or newspaper, for their reprinting.