The Gods of Mars
By: by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edition: 13th printing
Series: The Martian Tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs #2
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: April 12, 1979
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780345278357
Subjects: Science Fiction - General; Science fiction, American.; Fiction - Science Fiction
Genres: Science Fiction.
First sentence: 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 spectre 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.
Description: After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars.  But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished.  Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars -- an Eden from which none ever escaped alive.
Notes: A Del Rey Book.
Ballantine #27835.
Cover art by Michael Whelan.