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Thuvia, Maid of Mars

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First published: 1920
Pages: 140

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Carthoris and Thuvia
24:01
Slavery
21:25
Treachery
13:09
A Green Man's Captive
23:18
The Fair Race
29:34
The Jeddak of Lothar
19:32
The Phantom Bowmen
25:30
The Hall of Doom
24:27
The Battle in the Plain
20:24
Kar Komak, the Bowman
22:45
Green Men and White Apes
25:26
To Save Dusar
20:16
Turjun, the Panthan
24:24
Kulan Tith's Sacrifice
26:36

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars was serialized in 1916 and published in book form in 1920, and it represents Burroughs's first attempt to step away from John Carter himself and focus on a different generation of Martian characters. The protagonist is Carthoris, son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris, who is in love with the Princess Thuvia of Ptarth, who is engaged against her will to a prince of another city.

When Thuvia is kidnapped, presumably by Carthoris's rival Astok of Dusar, the prince of Helium follows her trail across Barsoom. The journey leads to the lost city of Lothar, populated by ancient yellow-haired Martians whose entire civilization is sustained by hypnotic phantom warriors. The Lothario chapters are some of Burroughs's most genuinely strange writing, with whole armies that exist only because someone is concentrating hard enough. The book is shorter than the original trilogy and runs more as a self-contained adventure than as part of a larger arc. A solid entry point for the middle stretch of the Barsoom series.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American writer, recognized for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best known for creating the characters Tarzan and John Carter, he also wrote the Pellucidar series, the Amtor series, and the Caspak trilogy.