A Princess of Mars: Science Fiction Stories
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FOREWORD
To the Reader of this Work:
CHAPTER I
ON THE ARIZONA HILLS
CHAPTER II
THE ESCAPE OF THE DEAD
CHAPTER III
MY ADVENT ON MARS
CHAPTER IV
A PRISONER
CHAPTER V
I ELUDE MY WATCH DOG
CHAPTER VI
A FIGHT THAT WON FRIENDS
CHAPTER VII
CHILD-RAISING ON MARS
CHAPTER VIII
A FAIR CAPTIVE FROM THE SKY
CHAPTER IX
I LEARN THE LANGUAGE
CHAPTER X
CHAMPION AND CHIEF
CHAPTER XI
WITH DEJAH THORIS
CHAPTER XII
A PRISONER WITH POWER
CHAPTER XIII
LOVE-MAKING ON MARS
CHAPTER XIV
A DUEL TO THE DEATH
I sought out Dejah Thoris in the throng of departing chariots.
CHAPTER XV
SOLA TELLS ME HER STORY
CHAPTER XVI
WE PLAN ESCAPE
CHAPTER XVII
A COSTLY RECAPTURE
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAINED IN WARHOON
CHAPTER XIX
BATTLING IN THE ARENA
CHAPTER XX
IN THE ATMOSPHERE FACTORY
The old man sat and talked with me for hours.
CHAPTER XXI
AN AIR SCOUT FOR ZODANGA
CHAPTER XXII
I FIND DEJAH
CHAPTER XXIII
LOST IN THE SKY
CHAPTER XXIV
TARS TARKAS FINDS A FRIEND
CHAPTER XXV
THE LOOTING OF ZODANGA
CHAPTER XXVI
THROUGH CARNAGE TO JOY
CHAPTER XXVII
FROM JOY TO DEATH
CHAPTER XXVIII
AT THE ARIZONA CAVE
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Aiming his work at the pulps, Burroughs had his first story, Under the Moons of Mars, serialized by Frank Munsey in the February to July 1912 issues of The All-Story– under the name "Norman Bean" to protect his reputation. Under the Moons of Mars inaugurated the Barsoom series and earned Burroughs US$400 ($9,775 today). It was first published as a book by A. C. McClurg of Chicago in 1917, entitled A Princess of Mars, after three Barsoom sequels had appeared as serials, and McClurg had published the first four serial Tarzan novels as books.
Burroughs soon took up writing full-time and by the time the run of Under the Moons of Mars had finished he had completed two novels, including Tarzan of the Apes, published from October 1912 and one of his most successful series.
Burroughs also wrote popular science fiction and fantasy stories involving Earthly adventurers transported to various planets (notably Barsoom, Burroughs's fictional name for Mars, and Amtor, his fictional name for Venus), lost islands, and into the interior of the hollow earth in his Pellucidar stories, as well as westerns and historical romances. Along with All-Story, many of his stories were published in The Argosy magazine.
Tarzan was a cultural sensation when introduced. Burroughs was determined to capitalize on Tarzan's popularity in every way possible. He planned to exploit Tarzan through several different media including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, movies and merchandise. Experts in the field advised against this course of action, stating that the different media would just end up competing against each other. Burroughs went ahead, however, and proved the experts wrong – the public wanted Tarzan in whatever fashion he was offered. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon.
In either 1915 or 1919, Burroughs purchased a large ranch north of Los Angeles, California, which he named "Tarzana." The citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch voted to adopt that name when their community, Tarzana, California was formed in 1927. Also, the unincorporated community of Tarzan, Texas, was formally named in 1927 when the US Postal Service accepted the name, reputedly coming from the popularity of the first (silent) Tarzan of the Apes film, starring Elmo Lincoln, and an early "Tarzan" comic strip.
In 1923 Burroughs set up his own company, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and began printing his own books through the 1930s.
