{"product_id":"a-princess-of-mars-isbn-9781598531657","title":"A Princess of Mars","description":"\u003cb\u003eRediscover the adventure-pulp classic that gave the world its first great interplanetary romance—now featuring an introduction by Junot Díaz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn the spring of 1866, John Carter, a former Confederate captain prospecting for gold in the Arizona hills, slips into a cave and is overcome by mysterious vapors. He awakes to find himself naked, alone, and forty-eight million miles from Earth—a castaway on the dying planet Mars. Taken prisoner by the Tharks, a fierce nomadic tribe of six-limbed, olive-green giants, he wins respect as a cunning and able warrior, who by grace of Mars’s weak gravity possesses the agility of a superman. He also wins the heart of fellow-prisoner Dejah Thoris, the alluring, red-skinned Princess of Helium, whose people he swears to defend against their grasping and ancient enemy, the city-state of Zodanga.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJohn Carter first appeared in 1912 in the pages of \u003ci\u003eThe All-Story \u003c\/i\u003emagazine and immediately entered the dream-life of American readers young and old. He was Edgar Rice Burroughs’s favorite among his many creations and remains a favorite of lovers of science fiction and fantasy everywhere.Junot Díaz’s fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. His highly-anticipated first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003c\/i\u003e, was greeted with rapturous reviews, including Michiko Kakutani in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e calling it “a book that decisively establishes him as one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible new voices.” His debut story collection, \u003ci\u003eDrown\u003c\/i\u003e, published eleven years prior to \u003ci\u003eOscar Wao\u003c\/i\u003e, was also met with unprecedented acclaim; it became a national bestseller, won numerous awards, and has since grown into a landmark of contemporary literature. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey, Díaz lives in New York City and is a professor of creative writing at MIT.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302022893797,"sku":"NP9781598531657","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598531657.jpg?v=1767720734","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-princess-of-mars-isbn-9781598531657","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}