The Gods of Mars
John Carter returns to Mars after ten years away and lands in the one place nobody comes back from. Pure pulp adventure, written at speed and moving at it.
Things worth knowing
- It ran as a serial in All-Story from January to May 1913 and waited five years for a book edition, published by A. C. McClurg in 1918.
- The premise came from an editor: Thomas Newell Metcalf told Burroughs to send John Carter into the Valley of Dor, and Burroughs finished the manuscript at the beginning of October 1912.
Listen, or read along
Every chapter has the recording and the same chapter as text. Open both if you like: the text is the words you are hearing.
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1 Foreword 5 min
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2 Chapter One 20 min
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3 Chapter Two 22 min
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4 Chapter Three 23 min
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5 Chapter Four 20 min
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6 Chapter Five 15 min
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7 Chapter Six 14 min
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8 Chapter Seven 19 min
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9 Chapter Eight 22 min
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10 Chapter Nine 16 min
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11 Chapter Ten 16 min
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12 Chapter Eleven 22 min
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13 Chapter Twelve 12 min
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14 Chapter Thirteen 22 min
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15 Chapter Fourteen 24 min
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16 Chapter Fifteen 14 min
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17 Chapter Sixteen 16 min
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18 Chapter Seventeen 14 min
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19 Chapter Eighteen 12 min
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20 Chapter Nineteen 23 min
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21 Chapter Twenty 22 min
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22 Chapter Twenty-One 13 min
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23 Chapter Twenty-Two 18 min
Where this comes from
US public domain: first published 1913, before the 1930 cutoff. Author d.1950, so also clear in life+70 jurisdictions.
Cover image: generated for this edition.
Narration: text-to-speech.
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