A Princess of Mars
by Edgar Rice Burroughs (A. C. McClurg, 1917)
audiobook read by Scott Brick (Tantor, 2008)
A freewheeling adventure aimed very much at an adolescent male market. Burroughs affects an erudite narrative voice (for pulp), and has invested sufficient thought to fudge a depiction of Martian culture. Events, however, transpire in an extemporised cavalcade, dreamlike and dramatically untethered.