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A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Confederate veteran John Carter is mysteriously transported to Mars, a dying desert planet called Barsoom.

"A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a science fantasy novel. Confederate veteran John Carter is mysteriously transported to Mars, a dying desert planet called Barsoom.

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I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty. I appear today as I did forty years and more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; that some day I shall die the real death from which there is no resurrection. I do not know why I should fear death, I who have died twice and am still alive; but yet I have the same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality.

And because of this conviction I have determined to write down the story of the interesting periods of my life and of my death. I cannot explain the phenomena; I can only set down here in the words of an ordinary soldier of fortune a chronicle of the strange events that befell me during the ten years that my dead body lay undiscovered in an Arizona cave.

Contents

  1. 01Foreword
  2. 02Chapter I on the Arizona Hills
  3. 03Chapter II the Escape of the Dead
  4. 04Chapter III My Advent on Mars
  5. 05Chapter IV a Prisoner
  6. 06Chapter V I Elude My Watch Dog
  7. 07Chapter VI a Fight That Won Friends
  8. 08Chapter VII Child-Raising on Mars
  9. 09Chapter VIII a Fair Captive from the Sky
  10. 10Chapter IX I Learn the Language
  11. 11Chapter X Champion and Chief
  12. 12Chapter XI with Dejah Thoris
  13. 13Chapter XII a Prisoner with Power
  14. 14Chapter XIII Love-Making on Mars
  15. 15Chapter XIV a Duel to the Death
  16. 16Chapter XV Sola Tells Me Her Story
  17. 17Chapter XVI We Plan Escape
  18. 18Chapter XVII a Costly Recapture
  19. 19Chapter XVIII Chained in Warhoon
  20. 20Chapter XIX Battling in the Arena
  21. 21Chapter XX in the Atmosphere Factory
  22. 22Chapter XXI an Air Scout for Zodanga
  23. 23Chapter XXII I Find Dejah
  24. 24Chapter XXIII Lost in the Sky
  25. 25Chapter XXIV Tars Tarkas Finds a Friend
  26. 26Chapter XXV the Looting of Zodanga
  27. 27Chapter XXVI Through Carnage to Joy
  28. 28Chapter XXVII from Joy to Death
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII at the Arizona Cave

About this edition

Author
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Advanced: for close, demanding reading
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
197 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers