The Gods of Mars is the second of the famous Barsoom series. It was first published in All Story as a five part serial in the issues for January May 1913. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in September, 1918. At the end of the first book, A Princess of Mars, John Carter is unwillingly transported back to Earth. The Gods of Mars begins with his arrival back on Barsoom (Mars) after a ten year separation from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
**Edgar Rice Burroughs** (1875–1950) est un écrivain américain célèbre pour avoir créé **Tarzan**, l’un des personnages de fiction les plus emblématiques au monde. Ancien soldat, cow-boy et chercheur d’or, il se lance dans l’écriture au début du XXe siècle et invente un univers où aventure, science-fiction et fantastique se mêlent. Son œuvre, prolifique, a marqué la culture populaire et inspiré des générations de lecteurs et d’auteurs. *The Return of Tarzan*, publié en 1915, est le deuxième tome d’une saga de 24 romans.
