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- Burroughs frames the story as a true report from John Carter, who leaves Burroughs the manuscript after his death with instructions not to publish it for 21 years.
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- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 1912
A Princess of Mars reads more like a fantasy/fairy tale than science fiction, and the characters are pulpy in the extreme. There are hissable villains, noble warriors, a beautiful princess who needs saving, good and bad monsters, and the like.
The novel we know today as A Princess of Mars differs somewhat from the version read by the All-Story readers of 1911. Burroughs felt that his story might be a bit too fantastic for the audiences of the day.
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In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs was thirty-five years old and selling pencil sharpeners out of an office in Chicago. His post-military service career was so far a series of undistinguished jobs that kept him and his family barely above poverty: an associate in a mining company in Idaho, a railroad policeman in Salt Lake City, a manager of a stenograp...
This novel inaugurates the tradition of opening with a prologue featuring a fictional version of Edgar Rice Burroughs, who states he was five years old before the start of the Civil War. (The real Burroughs was born in 1875.) Pseudo-ERB explains how he came upon the incredible manuscript which follows: it was the property of his uncle John Carter o...
Much of what I’ll say about this book, both positive and negative, is of zero importance; I am a speck of dust in the cosmos that Edgar Rice Burroughs built. A Princess of Marsis one of the most influential and important novels of its century, and science fiction as the world understands it today would not exist without it. If Burroughs didn’t writ...
It’s the first Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, it started his most consistent high-quality series, it’s an established genre milestone … but A Princess of Mars has many shaky sections that show ERB’s inexperience as a novelist. As a whole, the book comes up short compared to the best work in the series that will follow in short order. A Princess of Mar...
A Princess of Mars tells the story of John Carter, a Civil War veteran who inexplicably finds himself held prisoner on the planet Mars by the Green Men of Thark. With Dejah Thoris, the princess of another clan on Mars, John Carter must fight for their freedom and save the entire planet from destruction as the life-sustaining Atmosphere Factory ...
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Suddenly projected to Mars, Captain John Carter of the Confederate Army finds himself captive of the savage green men of Thark. With him is Dejah Thoris, lovely Princess of Helium. And between them and rescue lies a thousand miles of deadly enemies and unknown dangers.
Nov 3, 2020 · Burroughs frames the story as a true report from John Carter, who leaves Burroughs the manuscript after his death with instructions not to publish it for 21 years. John Carter is a former Confederate officer traveling with a fellow veteran in the American southwest after the end of the Civil War in hopes of finding gold.
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