{"product_id":"2940014209908","title":"Tarzan of the Apes","description":"The novel is the coming-of-age story of John Clayton, born in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa to a marooned couple from England, John and Alice Clayton, Lord and Lady Greystoke. Adopted as an infant by the she-ape Kala after his parents are killed by the savage king ape Kerchak, Clayton is renamed Tarzan (''White Skin'' in the ape language) and raised in ignorance of his human heritage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI don't care whether you are an English lord or not. I'm captain of this here ship, and from now on you keep your meddling nose out of my business.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe captain had worked himself up to such a frenzy of rage that he was fairly purple of face, and he shrieked the last words at the top of his voice, emphasizing his remarks by a loud thumping of the table with one huge fist, and shaking the other in Clayton's face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreystoke never turned a hair, but stood eying the excited man with level gaze.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Captain Billings,\" he drawled finally, \"if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhereupon he turned and left the captain with the same indifferent ease that was habitual with him, and which was more surely calculated to raise the ire of a man of Billings' class than a torrent of invective.","brand":"Sheba Blake Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070451368176,"sku":"2940014209908","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014209908_p0.jpg?v=1763603142","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014209908","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}