A Princess of MarsGrosset & Dunlap, 1917 - 326 oldal Ex-Confederate Army captain John Carter finds himself suddenly and unwittingly transported to Mars while fleeing Apache Indians. This new world is populated by a race of monstrous Martians whose culture is based on the ability to fight for their race. Captured by the savage green men of Thark, John discovers that the gravitational difference between Mars and Earth has endowed him with the strength that he will need for survival on this hostile planet. He battles ferocious Martian creatures and gains the respect and friendship of the Barsoomians. Along the way he encounters the beautiful Dejah Thoris Princess of Helium, and earns her everlasting devotion. |
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air scout animals approached arms asked audience chamber Bar Comas Barsoom Barsoomian battle beast beautiful body brute building cave chariots chieftain craft creature dark dead death Dejah Thoris door earthly eggs entered entire escape eyes face fear feet fell fight floor followed green Martians green warriors GROSSET & DUNLAP ground guard Hajus hands hastened head hordes huge hundred incubator jeddak John Carter Kantos Kantos Kan knew Kosis learned long-sword look Lorquas Ptomel Mars metal mighty mounted N. C. Wyeth night ornaments palace passed plaza Powell Princess of Helium prisoner quarters reached red Martian replied roof Sarkoja sea bottom seemed shoulder side sight silks and furs smile soon stood story strange sword swung Tal Hajus Tardos Mors Tars Tarkas Thark thoats thought thousand tion trail turned vessels wall Warhoon wild women Woola word young Zodanga
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22. oldal - I OPENED my eyes upon a strange and weird landscape. I knew that I was on Mars; not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness. I was not asleep, no need for pinching here; my inner consciousness told me as plainly that I was upon Mars as your conscious mind tells you that you are upon Earth. You do not question the fact; neither did I.
21. oldal - I felt a spell of overpowering fascination — it was Mars, the god of war, and for me, the fighting man, it had always held the power of irresistible enchantment. As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it, to draw me as the lodestone attracts a particle of iron. My longing was beyond the power of opposition; I closed my eyes, stretched out my arms toward the god of my vocation and felt myself drawn with the suddenness of thought through...
1. oldal - 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.
37. oldal - ... extreme age among them, nor is there any appreciable difference in their appearance from the age of maturity, about forty, until, at about the age of one thousand years, they go voluntarily upon their last strange pilgrimage down the river Iss, which leads no living Martian knows whither and from whose bosom no Martian has ever returned, or would be allowed to live did he return after once embarking upon its cold, dark waters. Only about one Martian in a thousand dies of sickness or disease,...
21. oldal - I stood thus meditating, l turned my gaze from the landscape to the heavens where the myriad stars formed a gorgeous and fitting canopy for the wonders of the earthly scene. My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. As I gazed upon it I felt a spell of overpowering fascination — it was Mars, the god of war, and for me, the fighting man, it had always held the power of irresistible enchantment. As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across...
330. oldal - Sister, the youngest member of a large family, but it is concerned not so much with childish doings as with the love affairs of older members of the family. Chief among them is that of Laddie, the older brother whom Little Sister adores, and the Princess, an English girl who has come to live in the neighborhood and about whose family there hangs a mystery. There is a wedding midway in the book and a double wedding at the close. Illustrated by WL Jacobs. "The Harvester...
26. oldal - ... later, for I was given but little time to speculate on the wonders of my new discovery. I had seen that the eggs were in the process of hatching, and as I stood watching the hideous little monsters break from their shells I failed to note the approach of a score of full-grown Martians from behind me. Coming, as they did, over the soft and soundless moss, which covers practically the entire surface of Mars with the exception of the frozen areas at the poles and the scattered cultivated districts,...
Bibliográfiai információk
| Cím | A Princess of Mars Mars novels, Edgar Rice Burroughs 1. kötet/Martian series, Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| Szerző | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| Szerkesztő | Frank E. Schoonover |
| Illusztrálta: | Frank E. Schoonover |
| Kiadó | Grosset & Dunlap, 1917 |
| Eredeti forrása | Harvard Egyetem |
| Digitalizálva: | 2005. szept. 27. |
| Terjedelem | 326 oldal |
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