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A Princess of Mars.
Edgar Rice Burroughs launches his Barsoom saga with a fast, vivid planetary romance of duels, deserts, war, and improbable love.
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- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- DotBooks
- DotBooks
- Paperback
- Standard white
- 222
- en
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About this book
A Princess of Mars opens Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Barsoom sequence with the kind of momentum that made planetary romance a durable popular form: a soldier mysteriously transported to Mars, rival peoples locked in conflict, impossible leaps across alien landscapes, and a story that drives forward on combat, discovery, and desire. It is unabashedly pulpy, but also immensely inventive.
Why read A Princess of Mars today?
Because it lets you watch a genre learning how to dream at full speed. Burroughs turns Mars into a stage for swashbuckling combat, strange biology, court intrigue, and heroic exaggeration, and the result still feels brisk and cinematic. Readers interested in the roots of science fiction and fantasy adventure will recognize how much later popular storytelling borrowed from this book.
What kind of classic is it?
This is an early science-fiction and adventure classic: less concerned with scientific plausibility than with worldbuilding energy, narrative propulsion, and romantic scale. Its influence runs through pulp magazines, comics, film serials, and modern franchise storytelling.
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