The novel picks up soon after where Tarzan of the Apes left off. The year is 1910 and Tarzan is 22 years old. The ape man, feeling rootless in the wake of his noble sacrifice of his prospects of wedding Jane Porter, leaves America for Europe to visit his friend Paul d'Arnot. On the ship he becomes embroiled in the affairs of Countess Olga de Coude, her husband, Count Raoul de Coude, and two shady characters attempting to prey on them, Nikolas Rokoff and his henchman Alexis Paulvitch. Rokoff, it turns out, is also the countess's brother. Tarzan thwarts the villains' scheme, making them his...

The story sets off with the introduction of Civil War veteran John Carter, who while mining for gold in Arizona, gets into a skirmish with native Indians. Forced to evade inside a mysterious cave, he is mysteriously transported to Mars, or Barsoom as it is called by its inhabitants. Carter discovers that he has immense strength and agility caused by the lower force of gravity on the planet. He then becomes acquainted with the Tharks, a nomadic tribe described as having four arms, a fearsome temperament and mostly distinguished by their green skin. The Tharks first instincts to kill the...

At the Earth's Core By Edgar Rice Burroughs. At the Earth's Core is a fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar. It first appeared as a four-part serial in All-Story Weekly from April 4-25, 1914. It was first published in book form in hardcover by A. C. McClurg in July, 1922.

La serie marciana es la segunda serie mas extensa y famosa de Edgar Rice Burroughs, despues de Tarzan. En ella se narran las aventuras de John Carter y otros varios guerreros y princesas en Barsoom (el Marte ficticio de Burroughs), que fue recreado con fauna y flora marciana; y ciudades y formas sociales propias. La primera mencion de Barsoom se incluyo en el titulo Under the Moons of Mars en 1912, publicado como novela en 1917 como Una princesa de Marte, diez secuelas le seguirian en los siguientes 3 anos con un reparto mas grande de personajes y mas detalles."

Edgar Rice Burroughs, continua la saga de John Carter, un personaje es de tipo heroico, con las cualidades que se atribuyen al mito del heroe. Al igual que los caballeros andantes medievales se distingue por su valentia, sentido del honor, defensa del debil, caracter noble, aspiraciones aristocraticas, generosidad, amor a la batalla, exaltacion de la amistad e idealizacion del amor. Por otra parte, comparte caracteres con los dioses y semidioses de la antiguedad clasica, como la inmortalidad, la fuerza y la agilidad extraordinarias, la resistencia a la fatiga, la pronta recuperacion de las...

En El Cerebro Supremo de Marte, sexto titulo de la serie de John Carter de Marte, Burroughs tiene uno de sus grandes aciertos introduciendo el personaje de Ulysses S. Paxten, capitan del ejercito americano es trasladado a Barsoom de la misma forma milagrosa en que lo fuera el propio John Carter al principio de la serie. A su llegada al planeta rojo, Paxten se ve envuelto en una alucinante historia de cambio de mentes que le llevara a conocer al mismisimo Senor de la Guerra de Marte."

Continua la saga de John Carter, un personaje es de tipo heroico, Burroughs retrata al personaje, como un ser inmortal. En efecto, no recuerda haber sido nunca nino. Las generaciones de su familia se refieren a el como el tio Jack, pero las ve crecer y morir, manteniendose siempre en una edad proxima a los 30 anos. Su caracter y cortesia ejemplifican los ideales de su Virginia natal. Capitan durante la Guerra civil estadounidense, se hace rico al encontrar una mina de oro en Arizona al acabar la guerra. Un dia se esconde de los indios Apaches en una cueva y cae en una muerte aparente, pero es...

THE WARLORD OF MARS relates the adventures of John Carter as he battles to win the secret of the prison cell in the Temple of the Sun - the cell that holds his beloved wife, Dejah Thoris, the Martian maid Thuvia, and the vicious and vindictive daughter of the High Priest of Issus. We meet again our old friend, the faithful Woola, mighty Tars Tarkas, John Carter's son Carthoris, and many a new friend and enemy from the crimson plains of the valley Dor to the frozen wastes of the far North, inhabited by the apt, through the dread Carrion Caves to the land of the yellow men with their bestial...

After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars, an Eden from which none ever escaped alive. Three monstrous white apes sprang into the arena. On her throne, Issus, the living goddess of the First Born, leaned forward in keen anticipation. At length the apes spied the huddled knot of terror-stricken maidens and, with demoniacal shrieks of bestial frenzy, charged upon them. A wave of mad fury surged over me. A single blow sent my guard unconscious to...