In this landmark, Civil War veteran John Carter is transported to a dying planet, where he must face giant green barbarians to rescue a Martian princess. Burroughs, best known as the creator of Tarzan, published this novel in 1911 and introduced a new style of writing that combined the genres of fantasy, adventure, and science fiction.
A Princess of Mars [with Biographical Introduction]
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle.
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Special Offers and Product Promotions
- This item is eligible for our 4-for-3 promotion. Eligible products include select Books and Home & Garden items. Buy any 4 eligible items and get the lowest-priced item free. Here's how (restrictions apply)
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fascinating imagination,
By
This review is from: A Princess of Mars (Paperback)
*** NOTE: As mentioned below, this book is in the public domain. If you wish to read it as an ebook, get the free Kindle version here on Amazon or download it from Project Gutenberg. ***
"World Building" is the term for modern fantasy and sci fi writers who take great lengths to create fictional cultures and civilizations, and then immerse their readers in them. They all learned it from such efforts as Edgar Rice Burroughs "Mars" series. As you read this book, you'll actually sort of wonder why the Mars Rovers didn't come across the peoples and civilizations described, and you'll feel a bit sad that they did not. Burroughs describes two societies, one somewhat different than our own, and one completely different. He includes animals, races, social customs, and physiology that were far ahead of his time in terms of literary imagination. Of course, his books were written, self admitedly, as pulp. There are flaws in plotting and some cliche in character development, but these are quickly washed away by the compelling story and the struggles of the hero to survive, and to help those natives of Mars for whom he has come to care. If you somehow missed these books before, they are good reads, for either older children or adults with a taste for the fanciful. The first few of the series have fallen into the public domain, and you can obtain them for free either here on Amazon for your Kindle, or from places like Project Gutenberg as text files. The first three books comprise a trilogy: A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, and Warlord of Mars. All three are public domain. Read, enjoy, and be carried away into a world you'll bemoan the loss of when you are done with the books!
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Captain John Carter Takes a Licken and Keeps on Tickin',
By
This review is from: A Princess of Mars (Paperback)
This is a nice Dover reprint of the first of Edgar Rice Burrough's Mars novel, which first appeared serialized in wide-circulation pulp magazines in the early years of the twentieth century.
Never quite as popular as Burrough's Tarzan books, the Mars series ranks right up there with the Pellucider (center of the earth) as fantasies dear to the hearts of boys of all ages. (Personally, I've always liked the Mars series better than Tarzan or Pellucider, but--as my wife notes--Burroughs does have a thing about apes, which appear on Mars as well as in the African jungle.) The story is completely implausible, even for its time. Burrough's gee-whiz fascination with pseudo-science such as radon as a universal energy source, and mystical "rays" unknown on earth, ring particulalarly hollow. Plopped down among the green hordes of war-like Mars, Virginia gentleman John Carter ex of the Confederate army unites the green Thark hordes to aid the Heliumite civilization of red Martians and win the hand of the incomparable Dejah Thoris in the first of the eleven Mars books. The book is written in language that probably was intentionally pompous and archaic even for its own time, making it a great vocubulary expander for today's kids who some day will face the SATs. It's amazing that in the hundred years since it was first published, and the millions of copies sold, no one has gone through this book to fix the words spelled incorrectly and other typos. The book conforms to todays PG rated movie standards: tons and tons of violence, and no sex. Well, Martians are hatched from eggs, anyhow. I first read this book, and the other books in the Mars series, as a kid, far longer ago than I care to admit. Now, I'm reading them to my eight-year-old son, who loves them. Flaws, weirdnesses, and bizarre language to the despite, I highly recommend the Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars books to anyone who has a taste for tales of fantastic adventures!
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Princess of Barsoom,
By
This review is from: A Princess of Mars (Paperback)
"I have never told this story nor shall mortal man see this manuscript until I have passed over for eternity. I know that the average human mind will not believe what it can not grasp......"
Written in 1912 this book is well written for its time and has intrigued countless generations of readers. I get the feeling that this story is being told over a campfire. Captain Carter is telling the story form memory as an old man of his adventures here on earth and on the planet of Barsoom (Mars). There are encounters with many strange creatures, situations, and yes even a "Princess of Mars." The forward to the book alone will capture your imagination. John Carpenter states "In one respect at least the Martians ae happy people; they have no lawers." This is a part is a series by the writer that brought us "Tarzan." The intro to the book alone will capture your imagination. The Great Book of Tarzan
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Citations (learn more)
90
books
cite this book:
See all 90 books citing this book
- Tarzan Forever : The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan by John Taliaferro on 19 pages
- Mars: The Lure of the Red Planet by William Sheehan on 7 pages
- Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination by Robert Markley on 6 pages
- The Cambridge Planetary Handbook by Michael E. Bakich on page 185, page 186, and page 199
- A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life by Frederick Busch on page 41, page 43, and page 44
See all 90 books citing this book
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
