A Princess of Mars | The Novel

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A Princess of Mars is in the Public Domain so you can enjoy it for FREE any one of the following three ways:

  • Read the book chapter by chapter online on this page — just scroll down, click on the chapters, and start enjoying it now.

  • Read the book online at the VERY COOL Library of Congress reading page which uses a facsimile of the original first edition — again, this is VERY COOL.  (Hint — try it!)

  • Download the eBook for Kindle (or other eBook formats) by clicking on the image to the right.

  • Download the audiobook or listen to the audiobook online by clicking on this link:  Books Should Be Free.

If you’re still wondering — am I going to like this or not?  Consider this.  This amazing book has been in print continuously for 100 years.

  • It has been translated into 56 languages.  More than 200 million people have read it.

  •  James Cameron read it as a teen and has told interviewers this was what inspired him to make  Avatar.

  • George Lucas read it as a teen and cites it as a primary source for Star Wars.

  • And the great scientist Carl Sagan says this is what inspired him to to become a scientist.

A Princess of Mars is the story of John Carter, who is transported from earth to Mars, or Barsoom by its inhabitants.  In mortal danger from the first moment he arrives, he must fight to survive as he encounters strange, dangerous,  and compelling people and cultures, including the incomparable Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium — a strong willed and beautiful woman who captures his heart and causes him to realize that his destiny is here, on his extraordinary adopted planet of Barsoom.

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A PRINCESS OF MARS

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

CONTENTS

Foreword

I On the Arizona Hills
II The Escape of the Dead
III My Advent on Mars
IV A Prisoner
V I Elude My Watch Dog
VI A Fight That Won Friends
VII Child-Raising on Mars
VIII A Fair Captive from the Sky
IX I Learn the Language
X Champion and Chief
XI With Dejah Thoris
XII A Prisoner with Power
XIII Love-Making on Mars
XIV A Duel to the Death
XV Sola Tells Me Her Story
XVI We Plan Escape
XVII A Costly Recapture
XVIII Chained in Warhoon
XIX Battling in the Arena
XX In the Atmosphere Factory
XXI An Air Scout for Zodanga
XXII I Find Dejah
XXIII Lost in the Sky
XXIV Tars Tarkas Finds a Friend
XXV The Looting of Zodanga
XXVI Through Carnage to Joy
XXVII From Joy to Death
XXVIII At the Arizona Cave

Click on the links below to read:

THE GODS OF MARS 

WARLORD OF MARS

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