title: Thuvia, Maid of Mars, with eBook (Barsoom)
author:  Edgar Rice Burroughs 
description: After serving in the Seventh Cavalry and a reserve militia during World War I, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) wrote for pulp fiction magazines. His best-known book, Tarzan of the Apes, was the start of his longest and most successful series.
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  ## Thuvia, Maid of Mars
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Edgar Rice Burroughs
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Thuvia, Maid of Mars
  
  
  ## by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER I
  
  
  ## 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 fiery blasts
  of my consuming love! No harder than your heart, nor colder is the hard, cold
  ersite of this thrice happy bench which supports your divine and fadeless
  form! Tell me, O Thuvia of Ptarth, that I may still hope-that though you do
  not love me now, yet some day, some day, my