A Princess of Mars
A Library of America Special Publication
$34.61
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
12 April 2012
Summary
Rediscover the adventure-pulp classic that gave the world its first great interplanetary romance-now featuring an introduction by Junot Diaz
In the spring of 1866, John Carter, a former Confederate captain prospecting for gold in the Arizona hills, slips into a cave and is overcome by mysterious vapors. He awakes to find himself naked, alone, and forty-eight million miles from Earth—a castaway on the dying planet Mars.
Taken prisoner by the Tharks, a fierce nomadic tribe of si…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598531657 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598531654 |
| Author: | Edgar Rice Burroughs, Junot Díaz |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 445g |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 133mm x 27mm |
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About The Author
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Junot Diaz’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories. His highly-anticipated first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was greeted with rapturous reviews. His debut story collection, Drown, published eleven years prior to Oscar Wao, was also met with unprecedented acclaim; it became a national bestseller, won numerous awards, and has since grown into a landmark of contemporary literature. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Diaz lives in New York City and is a professor of creative writing at MIT.
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