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Thuvia, Maid of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1920 · Adventure, Science Fiction
When Thuvia, princess of Ptarth, is carried off by a treacherous prince and the blame is laid on Carthoris of Helium, the young prince races across the dying sea-bottoms of Mars to clear his name and win her — through green hordes, white apes, and the phantom bowmen of a lost city that fights with armies conjured out of thought itself. Edgar Rice Burroughs's fourth Barsoom romance is sword-and-planet adventure at its most headlong.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 20 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
Barsoom — the map of the dying world, from Ptarth to hidden Lothar.
HeliumThe mighty twin city of scarlet and yellow towers, home of Carthoris and of John Carter, Warlord of Mars — wrongly blamed for the abduction of Thuvia.
A Map of Connections — the courts of Ptarth, Helium, Dusar and Lothar.
The Characters — the peoples of Barsoom, in medallion.
The Characters — the cast of the Martian romance, at full length.
Thuvia of Ptarth — the maid of Mars who commands the banths.
The Royal Gardens of Ptarth — Carthoris defends Thuvia from Astok.
A Green Man's Captive — Thar Ban seizes Thuvia among the ruins of Aaanthor.
This edition
- Title
- Thuvia, Maid of Mars
- Author
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950)
- First published
- 1920
- Illustrated plates
- 41 original artworks · 20 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 14 · about 45,675 words
- Reading time
- 3 h 3 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #72
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