The Chessmen of Mars: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 23 original MP3 tracks, 9:05:07 running time and a link to listen.
The Chessmen of Mars, credited to Edgar Rice Burroughs, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Read in English by Thomas A. Copeland Tara of Helium, John Carter's second child, is nearly as beautiful as her mother, Deja Thoris, and as independent-minded as her father. These qualities cause her much grief during a long series of imprisonments by hostile aliens. She is aided by a rejected suitor whom she fails to recognize but gradually learns first to trust and then to love, despite what she imagines to be a hopeless chasm between their social classes. A highly evolved race of intelligent beings is discovered in this novel, one of whom forms with Tara a complicated relationship that opens his eyes to the value of certain aspects of life which he and his kind have shed. We also learn of an ancient Martian culture differing markedly from the technologically advanced civilizations of other city-states; one of its pastimes is a bloody variation of Martian chess, played with human beings as the game pieces. For variety of character and incident, this novel is unsurpassed by its four predecessors in the series. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Chessmen of Mars
- Author credits: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 23
- Listed recording duration: 9:05:07
Catalogue topics
- adventure
- romance
- fantasy
- Mars
- love
- evolution
- battle
- classism
Track guide
- 00 - Prelude — 6:08
- 01 - Chapter 01 — 24:14
- 02 - Chapter 02 — 24:05
- 03 - Chapter 03 — 28:33
- 04 - Chapter 04 — 27:21
- 05 - Chapter 05 — 21:35
- 06 - Chapter 06 — 28:06
- 07 - Chapter 07 — 25:44
- 08 - Chapter 08 — 21:19
- 09 - Chapter 09 — 24:08
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 22:11
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 24:44
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 21:10
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 23:40
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 25:09
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 23:54
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 23:40
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 22:55
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 26:53
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 20:29
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 24:45
- 21 - Chapter 21 — 21:36
- 22 - Chapter 22 — 32:48
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