A Princess of Mars (ERB in Modern English, Vol. 1)

     I am a very old man; how old I do not know. I am a hundred, possibly more, but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can remember, I have always been a man of about thirty. I appear today as I did forty years and more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; that someday I shall die the real death from which there is no resurrection. I do not know why I should fear death, I who have died twice and am still alive; yet I have the same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality.

     And because of this conviction, I have determined to write down the story of the exciting periods of my life and my death. I cannot explain the phenomena; I can only set down here in the words of an ordinary soldier of fortune a chronicle of the strange events that befell me during the ten years that my dead body lay undiscovered in an Arizona cave.

Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic tale of the adventures of Captain John Carter of Virginia on the dead sea bottoms of Mars, and the love and friendship he found there. With the language updated to modern English, and a timeline of ERB's shared universe. First in the series ERB in Modern English.

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