Edgar Rice Burroughs 
More Martian Tales (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) 
Thuvia, Maid of Mars / The Chessmen of Mars

Readers who were enticed by
The Martian Tales Trilogy will delight even more in the fourth and fifth installments in Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian Tales series,
Thuvia, Maid of Mars and
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, is the hero of
Thuvia, Maid of Mars, and his daughter, Tara of Helium, is the heroine of
Chessmen of Mars. The two novels collected here resonate with the clash of steel swords and ring with the cries of breathtakingly beautiful damsels in distress.. Together with his Tarzan novels, his cycle of Martian novels helped make Edgar Rice Burroughs a household name, ensuring his enduring legacy as one of the most successful and popular writers in American history.

About the author

Born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 1, 1875, Edgar Rice Burroughs grew to maturity during the height of the Industrial Revolution and witnessed the emergence of the United States as a twentieth-century world power. Hailing from a well-to-do family, Burroughs was given an aristocratic education steeped in Latin and Greek, but he was drawn more to an itinerant life of adventure than to a life in the boardroom. The author of
Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Burroughs did not confine himself to a single genre; he also wrote medieval romances (
The Outlaw of Torn, 1914), westerns (
The War Chief of the Apaches, 1927), and mainstream novels (
The Girl from Hollywood, 1922).