&ldquo;A Princess of Mars&ldquo; is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.<br /><br />A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel, the first of the Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carter&#39;s wife Dejah Thoris.<br />Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction. The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.