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Thuvia Maid of Mars (Hardcover)
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Thuvia Maid of Mars (Hardcover)
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1920. After a rambunctious youth and series of short-lived jobs
including door-to-door salesman, accountant, a peddler for a quack
alcoholism cure and finally pencil sharpener wholesaler, Burroughs
found his calling as writer. As the story goes, one of Burroughs'
duties was to verify the placement of advertisements for his
sharpeners in various magazines. These were all-fiction pulp
magazines, a prime source of escapist reading material for the
expanding middle class. Burroughs spent time reading those
magazines and decided he could write those stories just as well. He
was lucky his first time out and sold Under the Moon of Mars. The
Tarzan series followed this and Burroughs was now a full-fledged
writer. The fourth book in Burroughs' Martian series, the story is
about Carthoris falling in love with Thuvia, princess of Ptarth,
who was rescued by John Carter from the Therns. Thuvia is stolen
away by Astok, Prince of Dusar, Ptarth's rival. Carthoris follows
her across Barsoom and rescues her, encountering some strange and
fascinating creatures. Thuvia, unfortunately, is already betrothed
to Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol, ally of Helium. See other titles by
this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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