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Foreword
Chapter I. The Plant Men
Chapter II. A Forest Battle
Chapter III. The Chamber of Mystery
Chapter IV. Thuvia
Chapter V. Corridors of Peril
Chapter VI. The Black Pirates of Barsoom
Chapter VII. A Fair Goddess
Chapter VIII. The Depths of Omean
Chapter IX. Issus, Goddess of Life Eternal
Chapter X. The Prison Isle of Shador
Chapter XI. When Hell Broke Loose
Chapter XII. Doomed to Die
Chapter XIII. A Break for Liberty
Chapter XIV. The Eyes in the Dark
Chapter XV. Flight and Pursuit
Chapter XVI. Under Arrest
Chapter XVII. The Death Sentence
Chapter XVIII. Sola’s Story
Chapter XIX. Black Despair
Chapter XX. The Air Battle
Chapter XXI. Through Flood and Flame
Chapter XXII. Victory and Defeat
Twelve years had passed since I had laid the body of my great-uncle, Captain John Carter, of Virginia, away from the sight of men in that strange mausoleum in the old cemetery at Richmond.
Often had I pondered on the odd instructions he had left me governing the construction of his mighty tomb, and especially those parts which directed that he be laid in an OPEN casket and that the ponderous mechanism which controlled the bolts of the vault’s huge door be accessible ONLY FROM THE INSIDE.
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Cutting and hewing to right and left, he laid an open path straight through the advancing plant men, and then commenced a mad race for the forest, in the shelter of which he evidently hoped that he might find a haven of refuge.
He had turned for that portion of the forest which abutted on the cliffs, and thus the mad race was taking the entire party farther and farther from the boulder where I lay concealed.
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