FREE MARS TRILOGY: A PRINCESS OF MARS/THE GODS OF MARS/THE WARLORD OF MARS PDF Edgar Rice Burroughs,Scott M Fischer,Scott Gustafson,Mark Zug | 689 pages | 07 Feb 2012 | SIMON & SCHUSTER | 9781442423879 | English | New York, NY, United States Barsoom - Wikipedia Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. NOOK Book. Home 1 Books 2. Read an excerpt of this book! Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. Overview When it Mars Trilogy: A Princess of Mars/The Gods of Mars/The Warlord of Mars in a Burroughs novel, the reader gets wet. In the first installment, Carter wins the affections of the "princess of Mars" and the respect of the Martian warlords whom he befriends. The excitement continues in The Gods of Mars when Carter engages the Black Pirates in airborne combat above the dead seas of Mars and leads a revolt to free the Martian races from a religion that thrives on living sacrifices. In the third book, Mars Trilogy: A Princess of Mars/The Gods of Mars/The Warlord of Mars of Mars, Carter overcomes the forces of evil that would destroy the planet. By the end of the trilogy the Martians all clamor for a triumphant John Carter to be their king. About the Author: Born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 1,Edgar Rice Burroughs grew to maturity during the height of the Industrial Revolution and witnessed the emergence of the United States as a twentieth-century world power. Hailing from a well-to-do family, Burroughs was given an aristocratic education steeped in Latin and Greek, but he was drawn more to an itinerant life of adventure than to a life in the boardroom. The author of Tarzan of the ApesBurroughs did not confine himself to a single genre; he also wrote medieval romances The Outlaw of Torn,westerns The War Chief of the Apaches,and mainstream novels The Girl from Hollywood, Introduction Combining otherworldly adventures with elements of classical myth, fast-paced plots with cliffhanging tension, and imaginative fantasy with vivid prose, Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Martian Tales Trilogy A Princess of Mars [], The Gods of Mars [], and The Mars Trilogy: A Princess of Mars/The Gods of Mars/The Warlord of Mars of Mars [] helped define a new literary genre emerging in the early twentieth century that would become known as science fiction. A Princess of Marswhich was originally published in installments in Argosy Magazine inlaunched Burroughs' illustrious writing career with its thrilling story of John Carter's adventures on Mars. This popular novel appeared in print only a year before Burroughs wrote the Tarzan epic that would catapult him to international fame. Edgar Rice Burroughs had been a failure at practically everything he tried before he picked up the pen and started writing. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 1,Burroughs grew to maturity during the height of the Industrial Revolution and witnessed the emergence of the United States as a twentieth-century world power. Hailing from a well-to-do family, Burroughs was given an aristocratic education steeped in Latin and Greek, but he was drawn more to an itinerant life of adventure than to the desk or the boardroom. While his own life was marked by a series of frustrated business endeavors and unrealized Mars Trilogy: A Princess of Mars/The Gods of Mars/The Warlord of Mars of military distinction, Burroughs filled his books with the sorts of adventures he fantasized about-journeys to distant planets, expeditions to the center of the earth, Mars Trilogy: A Princess of Mars/The Gods of Mars/The Warlord of Mars in the hidden frontiers of Africa. By the time he turned to Mars Trilogy: A Princess of Mars/The Gods of Mars/The Warlord of Mars in his late thirties, Burroughs had beena soldier in Arizona, a mining speculator in Idaho, and a stenographer for Sears, Roebuck, in Chicago. Although he approached each venture with enthusiasm, Burroughs seemed unsuited for whatever occupation he attempted, and he grew discouraged at his repeated failures. When he began his writing career at age thirty-six, it was practically as a last resort: byas one of his biographers' reports, Burroughs had been "reduced to pawning his wife's jewelry in order to pay household bills. The "pulps" were magazines printed on cheap paper made from pulpwood that featured page after page of rip-roaring adventure yarns offered for a dime. Their inexpensive format paved the way for both the comic book and the paperback novel. Burroughs' contribution to the pulp genre was not limited to the Mars stories-within a year of the initial success of A Princess of Marshe had surpassed himself with the first of the immensely popular Tarzan stories, Tarzan of the Apes Nor did Burroughs confine himself to a single genre; he also wrote medieval romances The Outlaw of Torn, westerns The War Chief of the Apaches, and mainstream novels The Girl from Hollywood Not only did Burroughs quickly achieve worldwide publishing success, but Hollywood soon adapted Tarzan to the new technological and cultural phenomenon called the motion picture. The first of many Tarzan films was made inand it turned both "Burroughs" and "Tarzan" into Mars Trilogy: A Princess of Mars/The Gods of Mars/The Warlord of Mars words. Burroughs purchased a large ranch in California, renamed it "Tarzana," and, enjoying for the first time in his life the leisure that is afforded by wealth and success, continued his prodigious output of stories and novels. Though marital problems plagued him later in life, Burroughs was a confirmed family man and a devoted father to his three children. He also considered himself a patriotic conservative, and immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in he joined the war effort, though at sixty- six he was too old to see active service. Burroughs served as a correspondent in the Pacific until the war ended, after which his health was too poor to resume writing his adventure tales with the zeal he had once possessed. When The Martian Tales Trilogy was first reissued init was criticized by Time as "a milestone in American bad taste. In spite of his immense popularity and perennial editions of his works, Burroughs has been largely ignored or dismissed by academic critics. He lacks the scientific sensibility of H. Wells, they charge, or the literary merit of Rudyard Kipling, both of whom were contemporaries. His defenders meet these charges obliquely. Without denying their accuracy, they counter by arguing that Burroughs delivers something lacking in other writers of fantastic adventures. As science-fiction writer Jack McDevitt puts it, "When it rains in a Burroughs novel, the reader gets wet. The Martian Tales Trilogyby any standard, is vividly exciting. Burroughs' The Martian Tales Trilogy resounds with the clanging of swords, the cries of damsels in distress, and the guttural gesticulations of warriors locked in dire combat. John Carter is a hero cast in the epic mold - like Odysseus and Aeneas before him, he relies on his ingenuity and martial prowess to bring off an endless series of hair's-breadth escapes. Readers with even a passing familiarity with Greek and Roman mythology will recognize the classical influences in the imaginary world that Burroughs creates on Mars, both in terms of general plot e. John Carter's reunion with his son in The Gods of Marsfor instance, retains a clear echo of Odysseus meeting Telemachus for the first time near the end of Homer's Odyssey. John Carter is far from a one-dimensional hero in spite of initial appearances. A former Confederate soldier, our hero is miraculously transported from Arizona, where he is employed Mars Trilogy: A Princess of Mars/The Gods of Mars/The Warlord of Mars a mercenary by the U. In effect, Carter dies on earth and is resurrected on Mars, which gives him a kind of quasi-immortality - he prefaces his narrative by remarking that "I am not like other men. But if a mysterious out-of-body experience transports him from earth and saves him from certain death at the hands of the Apaches, he is revived on Mars only to face immediate danger from the xenophobic Martians. Once on Mars, Carter must constantly prove himself against foe after deadly foe in his long and sustained rise to eventual lordship over the entire planet. Along the way he fights Mars Trilogy: A Princess of Mars/The Gods of Mars/The Warlord of Mars battles and wins victory at the point of a sword - winning the affections of Dejah Thoris, the "princess of Mars" who gives the first book its title, and the respect and approbation of the Martian warlords whom he befriends and aligns himself with in his march to power. Throughout the trilogy, Burroughs presents a world in which violence is the basic mode of discourse. John Carter gains the respect and loyalty of the native Martians through his systematic defeat of various chieftains in mortal combat. He is able to do this partly through his natural ability - as an earthman on Mars, he is pound for pound nearly four times as strong as the average Martian - and partly because of his natural military instincts, which had been honed in the American Civil War. Some critics have decried the fact that Carter embodies much of the character of European and American colonialism, and he exhibits many of its less admirable impulses.