A Princess of Mars: A Library of America Special Publication (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781598531657)

Rediscover the adventure-pulp classic that gave the world its first great interplanetary romance--now featuring an introduction by Junot D az

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. He awakes to find himself naked, alone, and forty-eight million miles from Earth--a castaway on the dying planet Mars. 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. 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.

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 was Edgar Rice Burroughs's favorite among his many creations and remains a favorite of lovers of science fiction and fantasy everywhere.

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
ISBN-10: 1598531654
ISBN-13: 9781598531657
Publisher: Library of America
Language: English
Published: 04/12/2012
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 7.30h x 5.00w x 1.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 76087 / Princess of Mars

About the Author
Junot Díaz's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories. His highly-anticipated first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was greeted with rapturous reviews, including Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times calling it "a book that decisively establishes him as one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible new voices." His debut story collection, Drown, published eleven years prior to Oscar Wao, was also met with unprecedented acclaim; it became a national bestseller, won numerous awards, and has since grown into a landmark of contemporary literature. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Díaz lives in New York City and is a professor of creative writing at MIT.