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Highly imaginative, exotic, and suspenseful, the story tells of a toddler — the son of an aristocratic English couple — deserted when his mother and father die in the jungles of Africa. Rescued and reared by apes, he learns to talk their language and imitate their ability to journey swiftly via the treetops. After studying the unique I realized that each one of the next adaptations had to be tamed due to the gripping violence of the original. The story transcends time and does not have that dated high quality of many books of the 1900s.
