title: Tarzan of the Apes (Oxford World's Classics)
author:  Edgar Rice Burroughs 
description: <br /><strong>Jason Haslam</strong> is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Dalhousie University.<br />
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  **Ouha,**
  
  
  **King of the Apes**
  
  
  
  
  
  by
  
  
  **Félicien Champsaur**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  translated, annotated and introduced by
  
  
  **Brian Stableford**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Black Coat Press Book
  
  
  
  
  
  **_Introduction_**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Ouha, roi des singes_ by Félicien Champsaur, here translated as _Ouha, King
  of the Apes_ , was originally published in Paris by Librairie Charpentier et
  Fasquelle in 1923. It thus intermediate, in temporal terms, between the first
  publication of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ _Tarzan of the Apes_ (1912) and the
  release of the film _King Kong_ (1933). It is also thematically intermediate
  between the two, and might be regarded, if the three texts are regarded as
  parts of an evolutionary sequence, as the “missing link” between the two.
  
  
  That thematic link might be more than merely coincidental. Although _Tarzan of
  the Apes_ was not issued in French translation until 1926, the first (silent)
  film version, released in 1918 would 