This special publication features full-cloth binding, acid-free paper, and a unique design with specifications differing from those of Library of America series titles. He teaches creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the spring of 1866, John Carter, a former Confederate captain prospecting for gold in the Arizona hills, slips into a cave and is overcome by mysterious. Junot Díaz is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the best-selling story collection Drown. On the occasion of John Carter’s centenary, The Library of America invites readers to rediscover A Princess of Mars, the adventure-pulp classic that gave the world its first great interplanetary romance. He was Edgar Rice Burroughs’s favorite among his many creations and remains a favorite of lovers of science fiction and fantasy everywhere. John Carter first appeared in 1912 in the pages of The All-Story Magazine and immediately entered the dream-life of American readers young and old. He also wins the heart of fellow-prisoner Dejah Thoris, the alluring, red-skinned Princess of Helium, whose people he swears to defend against their grasping and ancient enemy, the city-state of Zodanga. Taken prisoner by the Tharks, a fierce nomadic tribe of six-limbed, olive-green giants, he wins respect as a cunning and able warrior, who by grace of Mars’s weak gravity possesses the agility of a superman.
John Carter A Princess of Mars Marvel TPB BRAND NEW Edgar Rice Burroughs. He awakes to find himself naked, alone, and forty-eight million miles from Earth-a castaway on the dying planet Mars. A Princess Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs 1917 Hardcover Grosset and Dunlap.
In the spring of 1866, John Carter, a former Confederate captain prospecting for gold in the Arizona hills, slips into a cave and is overcome by mysterious vapors.
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