The duality used throughout this novel this a unifying factor. It was originally two stories combined into one novel. There are the twin cities of Kaji and Zuli separated by their twin magicians Mafka and Woora, who each possess one of the two magical gems, the Gonfal and the Great Emerald of the Zuli. The dual personality of Queen Gonfala is a pivotal part of the first story. The two cities, Cathne and Athne are the center of the second part of the story. There are the two heroes, Stanley Wood and Robert van Eyk. The two evil white hunters, Spike and Troll, help to push the story from the magic men to the elephant men. One could carry this theme out more to include minor twin occurrences like the two converging rivers, the Neubari and the Mafa, etc. However, there is more to this novel than dualities. Mainly, the big question of why the black women warriors of Kaji and Zuli want to be white and thus only mate with white men. This mystery is never answered. (Note: There are ethnic slurs present in this novel.)
"Tarzan and the Magic Men" was published as a three part serial in Argosy Weekly, September 19, 26; October 3, 1936. "Tarzan and the Elephant Men" was published as a three part serial in Blue Book of Fiction and Adventure, November, December 1937; January 1938. The two were combined into book form under the title "Tarzan the Magnificent." The first edition was published in 1939 by Burroughs Inc. and featured dust jacket and illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs.
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A couple of minor Tarzan novellas from Edgar Rice Burroughs,
By Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (COMMUNITY FORUM 04) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Tarzan the Magnificent: (#21) (Mass Market Paperback)
"Tarzan the Magnificent," the 21st book in the Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, consists of two novellas: "Tarzan and the Magic Men" (1936) and "Tarzan and the Elephant Men" (1937), the latter of which is a minor sequel to "Tarzan and the City of Gold." In the first novella the American travel writer Stanley Wood tells a fantastic story of another one of those lost cities in the heart of Africa, where women warriors are ruled by an evil magician and there is a great diamond called the Gonfal with hypnotic powers. Tarzan dismisses the story until he sees the Gonfal at work. The result is a standard ERB adventure yarn: Tarzan goes to the lost city to rescue another lost Englishman, resists the charms and powers of a savage queen, so on and so forth. Burroughs has been using this formula since "The Return of Tarzan" when the Lord of the Jungle first encountered La, the beautiful high priestess of the flaming god of Opar. The second novella returns us to Cathne, the City of Gold, and Athne, the City of Ivory, where Tarzan takes on Phoros, the dictator of Athne. This means more political intrigue in the effort to put Zygo on the throne of Athne and another gladiator fight in the arena between the Lord of the Jungle and Hyrack. The second story really has nothing to do with the first and really constitutes little more than ERB tying up some loose ends from "Tarzan and the City of Gold" (which was also something of a misnomer of a title since all the action is in the City of Ivory in both stories).
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