Production notes: This ebook of A Princess of Mars was published by Global Grey in 2018. This book has 190 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1917. While attempting to evade pursuit by hiding in a sacred cave, he is mysteriously transported to Mars, called Barsoom by its inhabitants. Sepia frontispiece and four black-and-white plates by Frank E.

Download for ereaders (below donate buttons) Support the site Last week over 37,000 people downloaded my ebooks - 9 people donated. Note: The scan is missing the inside front cover and the inside back cover. This book has 190 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1917. McClurg, restored to Burroughs' original version, and this is the version that has remained in print since that time.

Octavo (7.3125 x 4.875 inches 185 x 124 mm.). In 1917, under the title A Princess Of Mars, the novel was released in book form by A. Having struck a rich vein of gold, he runs afoul of the Apaches. First edition of Burroughss first Martian novel. It tells the story of John Carter, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, who goes prospecting in Arizona immediately after the war's end. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice BurroughsĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats.įull of swordplay and daring feats, A Princess of Mars is considered a classic example of 20th century pulp fiction. The novel became a seminal text in the early science fiction canon, inspiring a slew of imitators and even a pair of related genres, the planetary romance and the sword-and-planetary, practiced by the likes of Leigh Brackett and Michael Moorcock and which you still find examples of being written today.Buy the entire collection for only £15. 'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated. Pulitzer-prize winning author Junot Díaz ('The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao') wrote the introduction to a new edition of 'A Princess of Mars' that's due out on April 12 to mark the centenary of Carter's debut. The author of the 1917 book, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was also the creator of Tarzan, and first wrote about John Carter, a civil war veteran who travels to Mars (aka Barsoom), in the pages of The All-Story magazine in 1912. The new movie 'John Carter' is getting mixed reviews from critics, but the film's source material, the novel 'A Princess of Mars,' has long been hailed as a groundbreaking work of science-fiction fantasy.

The coming edition of 'A Princess of Mars.' ILLUSTRATION: The Library of America

A princess of mars first edition 1917