John Carter of Mars Author:Edgar Rice Buroughs The Eleventh Book of the Famous Martian Series — Edgar Rice Buroughs wrote in the Grand tradition of Rider Haggard, Jules Verne, H.G.Wells and other spinners of fantastic and wonderful adventures. — In John Carter of Mars, published after the author's death, his famous character, John Carter, Warlord of Barsoom, is lured to a deserted city to resc... more »ue his beloved Dejah Thoris, who has been captured by the power mad Pew Mogul. Instead of his wife. Carter finds a synthetic giant, one hundred and thirty five feet tall, and hordes of great white apes into which the brains of a man has been grafted!« less