A Princess of Mars - Brossura

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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ISBN 10: 0143104888 ISBN 13: 9780143104889

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2007

Riassunto

John Carter, a Virginia gentleman, finds himself mysteriously transported from Civil War-era America to the planet Mars, where he plots, along with fellow prisoner Dejah Thoris, the lovely Princess of Thelium, to escape from his savage green captors. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

Might it really be possible—in fact and not fancy—to venture with John Carter to the Kingdom of Helium on the planet Mars? (Carl Sagan)

L'autore:

Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1875. After serving a short time in the 7th U.S. Cavalry, Burroughs was a shopkeeper, gold miner, cowboy, and policeman before becoming a full-time writer. His first novel, Tarzan of the Apes, was published in 1914, and along with its 22 sequels has sold over 30 million copies in 58 languages. Author of numerous other jungle and science fiction novels and novellas, including The Land That Time Forgot, Burroughs had a writing career that spanned almost 30 years, with his last novel, The Land of Terror, being published in 1941. He died in 1950 at his ranch near Tarzana, the California town named for his legendary hero.

John Seelye is a graduate research professor of American literature at the University of Florida. He is the author of The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain at the Movies, Prophetic Waters: The River in Early American Literature, Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Early Republic, Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock, and War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism. He is also the consulting editor for Penguin Classics in American literature.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0143104888
• ISBN 13: 9780143104889
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 186