Edgar Rice Burroughs
(as Norman or Normal Bean)
It’s hard to say anything about Burroughs’ classic yarn, the foundation of the “planetary adventure” genre, that hasn’t been said before, elsewhere, and better. But think! It was the first story he ever sold, and if he had never written any more, would probably still be remembered as a landmark.
This was the first book I read & recorded for this project, and the original recording is quite rough. When I decided to read the two immediate sequels, The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars (all three novels were bound together by the University of Nebraska Press in an attractive omnibus edition entitled Under the Moons of Mars, the title under which “Princess” was serialized in All-Story Magazine), I chose to read all three books in order, and make my re-recording of A Princess of Mars a Patreon exclusive.
Recordings
- HNtW 001, 2017-01-20, Foreword, Chapters 1—4
- HNtW 002, 2017-01-24, Chapters 5—9, plus the beginning of Part 1 of Citadel of Lost Ships by Leigh Brackett
- HNtW 003, 2017-01-27, Chapters 10—13
- HNtW 004, 2017-01-31, Chapters 14—16 and the remainder of Part 1 of Citadel of Lost Ships
- HNtW 005, 2017-02-03, Chapters 17—20 and the beginning of Part 2 of Citadel of Lost Ships
- HNtW 006, 2017-02-07 (repeated 2017-07-07), Chapters 21—23 and the conclusion of Part 2 of Citadel of Lost Ships
- HNtW 007, 2017-02-10, Chapters 24—28 (complete) and the conclusion of Part 2 of Citadel of Lost Ships (repeated)
All these are .MP3 files, right on an hour long at 192 kbps (except for the first two, which were sent out at 128 owing to my own error), putting them right about 82 MB.
Chapter List
For those who wish to follow along, the text of this work is available through Project Gutenberg.
- On the Arizona Hills
- The Escape of the Dead
- My Advent on Mars
- A Prisoner
- I Elude my Watch Dog
- A Fight that Won Friends
- Child–raising on Mars
- A Fair Captive from the Sky
- I Learn the Language
- Champion and Chief
- With Dejah Thoris
- A Prisoner with Power
- Love–making on Mars
- A Duel to the Death
- Sola Tells me her Story
- We Plan Escape
- A Costly Recapture
- Chained in Warhoon
- Battling in the Arena
- In the Atmosphere Factory
- An Air Scout for Zodanga
- I Find Dejah
- Lost in the Sky
- Tars Tarkas Finds a Friend
- The Looting of Zodanga
- Through Carnage to Joy
- From Joy to Death
- At the Arizona Cave
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