Tag: Rudyard Kipling

Something for Summer Reading: ‘Tarzan of the Apes’ by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The distinction between what is “great” and what is “good” is significant when it comes to literature. “Tarzan of the Apes,” written by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912, is not a great book by any means—but it’s a thumping good read. Even if “Tarzan of the Apes” is just a pulp page-turner, as…


Lest We Forget: Some Lessons From Rudyard Kipling

“When I was a boy of fourteen,” Mark Twain once noted, “my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” Like Twain, some children roll their eyes when…