A Princess of Mars

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs launches his Barsoom saga with a fast, vivid planetary romance of duels, deserts, war, and improbable love.

At a glance A Princess of Mars opens Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Barsoom sequence with the kind of… 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.

What kind of classic is it?

About this book John Carter is swept to Mars, where war, alien cultures, and his bond with Dejah Thoris drive a foundational work of planetary romance.