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Title details for Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs - Available

Thuvia, Maid of Mars

#4 in series

by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Raymond Todd
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The winds of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars blow across a world where danger, daring, and adventure are the lifeblood of its untamed inhabitants. Here are magnificent cities glistening with barbaric splendor and peopled by the noble red men of Mars...savage, rampaging hordes of giant, multilimbed green men who roam the Martian plains...fierce beasts of prey whose hideous cries are the dreadful chorus of the red planet's night.

InThuvia, Maid of Mars, Carthoris, son of the legendary John Carter, is accused of abducting the beautiful Princess Thuvia. To clear his name and to rescue the woman he loves, he must battle hosts of diabolical foes. Yet all seems lost when they fall into the hands of Tario, made ruler of Lothar, for he proposes to sacrifice them to his savage, beast-like god.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Barsoom

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    November 9, 2004

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481561624
      • File size: 133652 KB
      • Duration: 04:38:26

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Burroughs loved creating new words to evoke the strangeness of his fictional worlds. Some can barely be pronounced, but Raymond Todd delivers them easily. Likewise, the novel's dialogue is stiff and marked by the melodramatic conventions of the period, but Todd does the best job possible with it, humanizing it when he can, and declaiming in full oratorical fashion when it's called for. Todd's delivery is well paced, shifting cadence to follow Burroughs's shifts from war to philosophy. And THUVIA is full of adventure--telepathic warriors, giant apes, true love, and more. All of that said, this book will attract relatively few listeners, being fourth in a series and marked by some truly bad prose. G.T.B. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      April 1, 2003
      This fourth novel of Burroughs's John Carter stories is one of the least imaginative in the series. Carthoris, the dashing son of the earthman Carter and his Martian wife, is in love with the beautiful princess Thuvia, who has been promised to another. When she is abducted by fierce green men, Carthoris is suspected of kidnapping her, and war seems imminent. Although he knows that Thuvia can never be his, Carthoris sets off to rescue her-with completely predictable results. The story seems less a sequel than a reworking of the themes in the first book, A Princess of Mars. Raymond Todd's narration is fine, but even Laurence Olivier would have trouble bringing the stilted dialog and cardboard characters to life. These tales are often fun, but they lack variety. For this reason, only A Princess of Mars may be necessary to satisfy demand.-Kent Rasmussen, Thousand Oaks, CA

      Copyright 2003 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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