The Martian, by George du Maurier, is a largely autobiographical[citation needed] novel published in 1898 and the author's third.

It describes the life of Barty Josselin as told by his close friend Robert Maurice, starting from their school days in Paris in the 1850s.

Written in long descriptive passages with very little dialogue and many digressions, the book had considerably less success in its time than its predecessor, the popular Trilby.

Barty is "a handsome, high-spirited, mischievous, and gifted fellow, thoroughly practical, yet with traits that have in them a strange idealism.

Martia is incarnated in the form of their daughter, and when the child dies, her spirit returns to Mars, and Barty also passes away.