Princess Mars. Level 2. Burrose E.R.

You can't understand what Elon Musk is talking about Mars? Do you blush if you have to speak English? With the Princess of Mars, your English will be released in extraterrestrial orbit! The famous romance of Edgar Rice Burrose once inspired whole generations of boys, of which such science fiction writers as Ray Bredbury, Robert Heinline and Arthur Clark grew up. According to the book in 2012, the film “John Carter”, one of the most box office films of the Russian rental.

Edgar Rice Burrose, was the author who gave the world of Tarzan and John Carter, and did not initially intend to become a writer. After an unsuccessful career of military and unsuccessful enterprises, he decided, reading popular magazines at leisure, which he himself could write no worse. And he was not mistaken. Several dozens of popular adventure novels in different cycles came out from under his pen. One of them you are holding in your hands now. “Princess of Mars” opens one of the most popular cycles of E. R. Burrose, telling about a gentleman from Virginia - John Carter. The veteran of the Civil War in the United States, fleeing in Poshchera from Red -handed, falls on Mars. The arid red planet has become for local residents the arena of the struggle for meager resources. John Carter, an involuntary participant in this struggle, will also have to take up the weapon to protect his love.

The text is adapted for the continuing to study the English language of the lower stage (level 2-Pre-Intermediate). The book contains a dictionary and detailed comments. The author of the adaptation is the wonderful linguist Alexander Igorevna Smirnova.