The complete online text of The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

On December 1, 1911, at about eight o'clock in the evening, a thirty-six-year-old man picked up a pen and began to write a story. This man had lived out almost half his life and was, by his own standards, a failure. He had tried many different occupation...

It is probably not surprising that a man nearly forty years of age, with a wife and children to support but no real taste for the pedestrian routines of business, should dream of being carried away to another planet or of being born in the jungle, free o...

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American adventure writer whose Tarzan stories created a folk hero known around the world. His novels sold more than 100 million copies in 56 languages, making him one of the most widely read authors of the twentie...

Byline: JAMES BLACK;CHARLES LEGGE QUESTION I've acquired an Isle of Lewis chess set which has, instead of the usual rooks or castles, pieces I'm told are called 'berserks'. Should these be treated as castles and move as such? IN spring 1831,...

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