title: John Carter in The Gods of Mars (Barsoom)
author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
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  Title: The Gods of Mars  
    
  Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs  
    
  Release Date: June 17, 2008 [EBook #64]  
    
  Language: English  
    
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  # THE GODS OF MARS
  
  
    
  
  
  ## Edgar Rice Burroughs
  
  
    
    
    
  
  
  ### FOREWORD
  
  
  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 c