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Thuvia, maid of Mars: read and explore
The fourth book in the Barsoom series shifts focus to Carthoris, son of John Carter, who…
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- Author
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Form
- novel
- Catalog year
- 1916
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CARTHORIS AND THUVIA Upon a massive bench of polished ersite beneath the gorgeous blooms of a giant pimalia a woman sat. Her shapely, sandalled foot tapped impatiently upon the jewel-strewn walk that wound beneath the stately sorapus trees across the scarlet sward of the royal gardens of Thuvan Dihn, Jeddak of Ptarth, as a dark-haired, red-skinned warrior bent low toward her, whispering heated words close to her ear. “Ah, Thuvia of Ptarth,” he cried, “you are cold even before the …
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