Tarzan the Magnificent (novel)

Tarzan the Magnificent

Dust-jacket illustration of Tarzan the Magnificent
Author	Edgar Rice Burroughs
Illustrator	John Coleman Burroughs
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Tarzan series
Genre	Adventure novel
Publisher	Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
Publication date	1939
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	318 pp
Preceded by	Tarzan and the Forbidden City
Followed by	Tarzan and the Foreign Legion

Tarzan the Magnificent is a book written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the twenty-first in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. 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 Blue Book 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 and precedes Tarzan and the Forbidden City. In order of book publication it falls between the latter and Tarzan and the Foreign Legion. The novel's plot bears no relation to that of the 1960 film of the same title.

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.