Edgar Rice Burroughs 3 hr 28 min read

When the beautiful princess Thuvia of Ptarth is kidnapped and Carthoris, son of John Carter, is blamed, the young prince must brave the phantom bowmen of Lothar to rescue her and clear his name.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1916 novel (here in Finnish translation) is a rousing entry in the beloved Barsoom series. Vivid, thrilling, imaginative. Read it for classic Martian adventure, the next generation of John Carter's line, the eerie mind-conjured warriors of Lothar, and a headlong quest of abduction, war, and romance across dying Mars, in sword-and-planet at its most colorful.

In its time

Published in 1916, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 28 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).