The Gods of Mars (ERB in Modern English, Vol. 2)

     As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear cold night in the early part of March 1886, the noble Hudson flowing like the grey and silent specter of a dead river below me, I felt again the strange, compelling influence of the mighty god of war, my beloved Mars, which for ten long and lonesome years I had implored with outstretched arms to carry me back to my lost love.

     Not since that other March night in 1866, when I had stood without that Arizona cave in which my still and lifeless body lay wrapped in the similitude of earthly death, had I felt the irresistible attraction of the god of my profession.

     With arms outstretched toward the red eye of the great star, I stood praying for a return of that strange power which twice had drawn me through the immensity of space, praying as I had prayed on a thousand nights before during the long ten years that I had waited and hoped.

     Suddenly, a qualm of nausea swept over me, my senses swam, my knees gave beneath me, and I pitched headlong to the ground upon the very verge of the dizzy bluff.

Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic hero Captain John Carter of Virginia returns to his beloved Mars, and finds himself in the hell of that planet's earthly paradise. With the language updated to modern English, and a timeline of ERB's shared universe. Second in the series ERB in Modern English.

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