"A Chronicle of Captain John Carter of Virgina and his travel to the Great Planet Barsoom (Mars) as retold by Edgar Rice Burroughs"

"I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood." John Carter

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A PRINCESS OF MARS: FOREWORD

To the Reader of this Work: In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to...

CHAPTER I: ON THE ARIZONA HILLS

I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I...

CHAPTER II: THE ESCAPE OF THE DEAD

A sense of delicious dreaminess overcame me, my muscles relaxed, and I was on the point...

CHAPTER III: MY ADVENT ON MARS

I opened my eyes upon a strange and weird landscape. I knew that I was on Mars; not once...

CHAPTER IV: A PRISONER

We had gone perhaps ten miles when the ground began to rise very rapidly. We were, as I...

CHAPTER V : I ELUDE MY WATCH DOG

Sola stared into the brute’s wicked-looking eyes, muttered a word or two of...

CHAPTER VI : A FIGHT THAT WON FRIENDS

The thing, which more nearly resembled our earthly men than it did the Martians I had...

CHAPTER VII : CHILD-RAISING ON MARS

After a breakfast, which was an exact replica of the meal of the preceding day and an...

CHAPTER VIII : A FAIR CAPTIVE FROM THE SKY

The third day after the incubator ceremony we set forth toward home, but scarcely had the...

CHAPTER IX: I LEARN THE LANGUAGE

As I came back to myself I glanced at Sola, who had witnessed this encounter and I was...

CHAPTER X: CHAMPION AND CHIEF

Early the next morning I was astir. Considerable freedom was allowed me, as Sola had...

CHAPTER XI: WITH DEJAH THORIS

As we reached the open the two female guards who had been detailed to watch over Dejah...

CHAPTER XII: A PRISONER WITH POWER

As I entered and saluted, Lorquas Ptomel signaled me to advance, and, fixing his great,...

CHAPTER XIII: LOVE-MAKING ON MARS

Following the battle with the air ships, the community remained within the city for...

CHAPTER XIV: A DUEL TO THE DEATH

My first impulse was to tell her of my love, and then I thought of the helplessness of...

CHAPTER XV : SOLA TELLS ME HER STORY

When consciousness returned, and, as I soon learned, I was down but a moment, I sprang...

CHAPTER XVI: WE PLAN ESCAPE

The remainder of our journey to Thark was uneventful. We were twenty days upon the road,...

CHAPTER XVII: A COSTLY RECAPTURE

As the speaker ceased he turned to leave the apartment by the door where I was standing,...

CHAPTER XVIII: CHAINED IN WARHOON

It must have been several hours before I regained consciousness and I well remember the...

CHAPTER XIX: BATTLING IN THE ARENA

Slowly I regained my composure and finally essayed again to attempt to remove the keys...

CHAPTER XX: IN THE ATMOSPHERE FACTORY

For two days I waited there for Kantos Kan, but as he did not come I started off on foot...