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The Chessmen of Mars Summary
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The Chessmen Of Mars -- Adobe PDF ebook. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s classic work. |
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| SHEA had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality by calling his attention to the nth time to that theory, propounded by certain scientists, which is based upon the assertion that phenomenal chess players are always found to be from the ranks of children under twelve, adults over seventy-two or the mentally defective - a theory that is lightly ignored upon those rare occasions that I win. Shea had gone to bed and I should have followed suit, for we are always in the saddle here before sunrise; but instead I sat there before the chess table in the library, idly blowing smoke at the dishonored head of my defeated king. While thus profitably employed I heard the east door of the living-room open and someone enter. I thought it was Shea returning to speak with me on some matter of tomorrow's work; but when I raised my eyes to the doorway that connects the two rooms I saw framed there the figure of a bronzed giant, his otherwise naked body trapped with a jewel-encrusted harness from which there hung at one side an ornate short-sword and at the other a pistol of strange pattern. The black hair, the steel-gray eyes, brave and smiling, the noble features - I recognized them at once, and leaping to my feet I advanced with outstretched hand. |
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| TARA of Helium rose from the pile of silks and soft furs upon which she had been reclining, stretched her lithe body languidly, and crossed toward the center of the room, where, above a large table, a bronze disc depended from the low ceiling. Her carriage was that of health and physical perfection--the effortless harmony of faultless coordination. |
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| "The Chessmen of Mars" is the fifth of eleven books in the Martian series by renowned Science Fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs. Some would say that Burroughs was at the top of his writing career when writing this thrilling classic. It was written in 1921. Carried away in a deluge, Tara (daughter of John Carter) becomes lost on the red planet with only a dagger to protect herself. She then becomes the prisoner of the evil Kaldanes whose cannibalistic tendencies are unleashed against her. Everyone's fate is at stake with a deadly game of Martian chess. George Lucas said that one-third of his inspiration for the Star Wars movies came from this series of books. This book was originally publishes in the newspaper "Argosy All Story Weekly" and the next year in hardback edition. The book is said to be the most thought provoking and imaginative books in the entire Burroughs series. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. This eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. |
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| More epic adventure on Mars -- and a deadly game of living chess |
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Perhaps the most imaginative of the volumes in the Barsoom series, The Chessman of Mars was first published in 1922. When Tara, daughter of John Carter and Dejah Thoris, is introduced to Gahan, Jed of Gathol, she is not overly impressed by the dandy. However, Gahan falls instantly in love and is the first to leap to the rescue when Tara turns up missing after being swept away in her flier during a ferocious storm. Tara is captured by the kaldane, a species which has evolved into purely intellectual beings who have no use for emotion or for Tara's race, save as food. Although Gahan is able to rescue her from the horrors of the kaldane, they are soon captured and forced to play for their lives against the Chessmen of Mars. Can they possibly win their freedom when the odds are stacked against them? The Barsoom series is the favorite of many fans of Burroughs's works, and it's not hard to see why. Each volume in the series is filled with classic high adventure: swordfights, rescues, escapes and of course, true love! |
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