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The Warlord of Mars by E.R. Burroughs begins after the previous installment in the Martian series abruptly ends: John Carter's beloved princess Dejah Thoris has been imprisoned in the Temple of the Sun, whose rooms only revolve back to the entrance once every Barsoomian year. Now, Carter must mount a rescue to save the princess from certain doom.The novel, a fast-paced and straightforward tale of swashbuckling adventure, is another solid entry in Burroughs' ""swords-and-planets"" corpus. It was originally serialized in four parts in All-Story Magazine before being published as a novel in 1919. The Warlord of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the third of his Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it in June, 1913, going through five working titles; Yellow Men of Barsoom, The Fighting Prince of Mars, Across Savage Mars, The Prince of Helium, and The War Lord of Mars. The finished story was first published in All-Story Magazine as a four-part serial in the issues for December, 1913-March, 1914.[1] It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in September, 1919. Plot introduction This novel continues where the previous one in the series, The Gods of Mars abruptly ended. At the end of the previous book, John Carter's wife, the princess Dejah Thoris, is imprisoned in the Temple of the Sun by the vile pretender goddess Issus. It is said one has to wait an entire Barsoomian year before the room the prisoner is in revolves back to the entrance.

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The Warlord of Mars begins after the previous installment in the Martian series abruptly ends: John Carter's beloved princess Dejah Thoris has been imprisoned in the Temple of the Sun, whose rooms only revolve back to the entrance once every Barsoomian year. Now, Carter must mount a rescue to save the princess from certain doom.The novel, a fast-paced and straightforward tale of swashbuckling adventure, is another solid entry in Burroughs' ""swords-and-planets"" corpus. It was originally serialized in four parts in All-Story Magazine before being published as a novel in 1919.

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