I would now regard this as a finished product if you find any errors, no matter how small, please let me know so that they can be corrected. Goodness knows how many thousand errors corrected, and a considerable amount of text added which was previously missing. The Orovars, who have dominated for a million years, are on the verge of extinction at the hands of the Green Hordes and the emerging Red Martians. Allen St. Barsoom is a dying world: its once mighty oceans are receding and its atmosphere grows more tenuous by the day. Master Mind of Mars and Yellow Men of Mars: Burroughs, Edgar Rice, Schoonover, Frank E., John, J. Uploaded v3.Ĭompletely reformatted and thoroughly proofed against printed versions of all 11 of the books that comprise the omnibus. Barsoom Series Collection: 7 John Carter Stories Fully Illustrated - A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, The Warlord of Mars, Thuvia, Maid of Mars. Barsoom Series Collection: 7 John Carter Stories Written by: Edgar Rice Burroughs Narrated by: Eric Vincent Length: 54 hrs and 31 mins Release date: Language: English 12 ratings Price: 40.26 Try for 0. The first Barsoom tale was serialized as Under the Moons of Mars in 1912, and published as a novel as A Princess of Mars in 1917. Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs. Changed the name from "Barsoom Collection" to "Barsoom Omnibus" to be consistent with my other omnibus editions. The First Barsoom Collection includes five full-length novels featuring John Carter. Replaced books 2-4 in the series with improved versions from PG. This Golden Deer Classics collection includes the first 5 volumes of the Barsoom series BOOK 1-Princess of Mars: John Carter, Confederate veteran, was tending to business under the threat of an Indian attack in the Arizona desert, when suddenly he finds himself on Mars. Many of the PG sources (especially for the later books in the series) are extremely poorly formatted, and needed a great deal of work to make them look reasonable.Ĭompletely recreated the book with improved formatting. I naively thought this would be quick to produce, but I've just finished it after a 12h "marathon". I've done this along the same lines as my previous "Complete Sherlock Holmes" book there's a book index at the start, and selecting a book takes you to a contents page for that book. It's true to say that "Star Wars" would never have existed without "Barsoom". Just in case anyone isn't familiar with it, the "Barsoom" series is the architypal "boys' own adventure" type stories, set on (a fantasic) planet Mars, with muscle-bound heroes, princesses to be rescued from fates worse than death, wierd monsters, etc etc. A bit of light-hearted relief from the serious stuff, here's Edgar Rice Burroughs' complete "Barsoom" series, in one (very long!) book:
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