Not a fanI think it's kind of unambiguously racist and yes, it was of the time, blah. My other beef is that it is simply a boring book.
A Princess of Mars (1912)
Others: Negative I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty. I appear today as I did forty years and more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; that some day I shall die the real death from which there is no resurrection. [Adventures of John Carter in Mars -- from the author of the Tarzan series.]
- ISBN:
- 9781598531657
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- 160 pages
Genres: fantasy, science fiction, thriller, young adult, classics
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