EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950) was a prodigy of imagination. Justifiably famous as the creator of Tarzan of the Apes, Burroughs's debut novel was the first of the John Carter of Mars series, A Princess of Mars, opening the floodgates to one of the most prolific literary careers in history.

John Carter of Mars is a magnificent romance that can be best described as science fiction mixed with an epic dose of romantic adventure, a fantasy world populated with giant green barbarians, beautiful maidens in distress, and weird flora and monstrous fauna the likes of which could only exist in the author's boundless imagination.