More Martian Tales Library of Essential Reading

Readers who were enticed by The Martian Tales Trilogy will delight in the fourth and fifth installments of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Martian Tales series. Thuvia, Maid of Mars and The Chessmen of Mars. The hero of the first three novels, the earthling John Carter, has faded into the background, yielding the stage to his Martian-born-children- his son, Carthoris, the hero of Thuvia, Maid of Mars, and his daughter, Tara of Helium, the heroine of The Chessmen of Mars. The two novels collected here resonate with the clash of steel swords and ring with the cries of breathtaking beautiful damsels in distress. Together with his Tarzan novels, his cycle of Martian novels helped make Edgar Rice Burroughs a household name.