H. Rider Haggard was an English author known for adventure novels set in exotic locations. Haggard is considered to be one of the first writers of the Lost World genre. Haggard's novel She: A History of Adventure is a first-person narrati...
OLAF RED-SWORD the son of Thokald is an enemy of us the gods as was his forefather The Wanderer whose grave he robbed. As his forefathers fate was so shall his be, for in both of them dwells the same spirit. He shall worship that which is upon the h...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The Ancient Allan.’ Sitting beside entrancing Lady Ragnall while the smoke of an ancient Egyptian herb grows thick around them, Allan Quatermain finds himself departing the ...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Allan Quatermain’ The tale of Allan Quatermain's second wife, Stella, is also a classic fantasy African adventure, complete with magic and ghosts, plus Haggard's trademark g...
The further exploits of the big-game hunter and intrepid explorer introduced to readers in H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines. Set in Africa, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold meets the high standards for an adventure novel set by that ...
If representatives of an advanced civilization were to visit our planet today, would they be impressed or dismayed by the way we live? When three adventurers, Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot, are marooned on a South Sea island, they discover an ancient...
H. Rider Haggard was an English author known for adventure novels set in exotic locations. Haggard is considered to be one of the first writers of the Lost World genre. Haggard's novel She: A History of Adventure is a first-person narrati...
Allan and the Ice Gods is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain saga, and it comprises the fourth part of a loosely linked series begun with Allan and the Holy Flower, The Ivory Child, and The Ancient Allan. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucin...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Nada the Lily.’ “On the third day he asked Zweete how it was that his left hand was white and shriveled, and who were Umslopogaas and Nada, of whom he had let fall some wo...
This collection of short stories includes three which feature Allan Quatermain, the hero of King Solomon's Mines and other classic novels ("Long Odds," "Hunter Quatermain's Story," and "A Tale of Three Lions") as well as two bonus stories ("The Mahat...
The hero of the story is Alan Vernon, a young retired army major, who, after undergoing financial ruin, decides to travel to Africa to make his fortune, in hopes of eventually winning the hand of beautiful Barbara Champers-Haswell. Vernon has hear...
Tremendous battles ensue: by the time it's all said and done, we've run up against a giant gorilla god, cannibals, slave traders, a very suspenseful lake chase, evil wizards, a hidden volcanic sanctuary . . . and more!
...Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Queen Sheba's Ring.’ The discovery of a ring, given to the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon himself, launches this tale of romance and adventure from master storyteller H. Rid...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The Brethren’ From the sea-wall on the coast of Essex, Rosamund looked out across the ocean eastwards. To right and left, but a little behind her, like guards attending the ...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Fair Margaret’ In the turbulent reign of King Henry VII, Peter Brome finds himself with a soldier's blood on his hands -- blood the Spanish ambassador's men demand be repaid...
If you're hankering for a classic H. Rider Haggard action-adventure tale, dive into Black Heart and White Heart. Set amidst the Zulu nation, this gripping account of a blood feud among the ranks of the tribe unspools at a breakneck pace. With all of ...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Love Eternal’. Although English author H. Rider Haggard is popularly known today as "the father of the lost race novel," such adventure tales of vanished civilizations were ...
H. Rider Haggard was an English author known for adventure novels set in exotic locations. Haggard is considered to be one of the first writers of the Lost World genre. Haggard's novel She: A History of Adventure is a first-person narrati...
The Rev. Thomas Bull was a man of rock-like character with no more imagination than a rock. Of good birth, good abilities, good principles and good repute, really he ought to have been named not Thomas but John Bull, being as he was a typical represe...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE (22 June 1856 - 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout ...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE (22 June 1856 - 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout ...
An inspiration for the popular Indiana Jones series, Henry Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain is one of the most beloved character to emerge from the action-adventure fiction of the nineteenth century. This early short story focuses on Allan Quatermain...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Regeneration’ In Regeneration, Haggard talks of the work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain. Haggard sums up the Salvation Army by saying, "the religious Organization fo...
THE PROFESSOR'S BOOKSHELF #6 THE SAGA OF ERIC BRIGHTEYES â€" ILLUSTRATED Rider Haggard is among a small selection of Victorian and Edwardian writers whom Professor J.R.R. Tolkien acknowledged by name. In her introduction to this new edition Cecilia D...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE (22 June 1856 â€" 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughou...
Raised in near-isolation in South Africa, a young Dutch girl named Swallow spends her days gazing upon the sea and dreaming of a happier life filled with friends, family and love. Soon, her daydreams begin to become reality in ways she could never ha...
Had I the slightest qualification for the task, I, Allan Quatermain,would like to write an essay on Temptation.This, of course, comes to all, in one shape or another, or at any rateto most, for there are some people so colourless, so invertebrate tha...
The autumn afternoon was fading into evening. It had been cloudy weather, but the clouds had softened and broken up. Now they were lost in slowly darkening blue. The sea was perfectly and utterly still. It seemed to sleep, but in its sleep it still w...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (1856-1925) was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private 'crammer' in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Off...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
Doctor Therne is a 1898 science fiction novel about a plague that sweeps England.Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His st...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Finished.’ A curious effect of Haggard's successful emulation of the terse, pithy style of saga prose is that the idiom of this novel actually seems rather less dated in the...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The Ghost Kings.’ "The Zulus have a strange story of a white girl who in Dingaan's day was supposed to 'hold the spirit' of some legendary goddess of theirs who is also whit...
Somewhere in Central America exists a forgotten Mayan citadel, filled with gold and jewels -- and its living inhabitants. An English adventurer can’t resist the lure of lost treasure any more than the wiles of a beautiful princess in this thumping ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
H. Rider Haggard was an English author known for adventure novels set in exotic locations. Haggard is considered to be one of the first writers of the Lost World genre. Haggard's novel She: A History of Adventure is a first-person narrati...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
An outstanding book, it chronicles the story of the Exodus. Haggard introduces the biblical tale through the character of Ana, an unlikely narrator. First published as a book in 1918, it is remarkable for its religious and historical content. Truly h...
It was but two hours after midnight, yet many were wakeful in Caesarea on the Syrian coast. Herod Agrippa, King of all Palestine-by grace of the Romans-now at the very apex of his power, celebrated a festival in honour of the Emperor Claudius, to whi...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales.’ Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of...
Setting aside the exotic action-adventure tales that were long his stock in trade, acclaimed author H. Rider Haggard explores the realm of the supernatural in the bone-chilling romance Stella Fregelius. When an eccentric inventor falls head-over-heel...
H. Rider Haggard was an English author known for adventure novels set in exotic locations. Haggard is considered to be one of the first writers of the Lost World genre. Haggard's novel She: A History of Adventure is a first-person narrati...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (1856-1925) was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private 'crammer' in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Off...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (1856-1925) was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private 'crammer' in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Off...
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.In bygone years the books She and Ayesha were dedicated to Andrew Lang. Now, when he is dead, this, the last romance that will be written concerning She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, is offered as a tribute to his bel...
In this 1885 courtroom drama Zulu magic comes to the British Fenlands, as the severed head of a sorcerer casts a spell from beyond the grave. The story sweeps from England to the South African setting Haggard knew well from his years with Britain’s...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The Wizard’. "The Wizard," H. Rider Haggard's 21st novel out of an eventual 58, was initially released as a serial in a publication called "The African Review" and then in i...
The second volume in this stunning series of adventures in the distant past
Rider Haggard is one of the most famous authors of adventure fiction in the English language. Almost everyone has heard of Allan Quatermain-the hero of King Solomon's ...
The master story teller's view of the Ancient World
Rider Haggard is one of the most famous authors of adventure fiction in the English language. Almost everyone has heard of Allan Quatermain-the hero of King Solomon's Mines-and the beautiful,...
An addition to the Leonaur Ancient Adventures series by H. Rider Haggard
Rider Haggard is one of the most famous authors of adventure fiction in the English language. Almost everyone has heard of Allan Quatermain-the hero of King Solomon's Min...
The first of a four volume collection-each containing two or more adventures
Rider Haggard's affection for and affinity with the 'Dark Continent' is well known. His adventures featuring Allan Quatermain-the little white hunter, trader and expl...
The first of a four volume collection-each containing two or more adventures
Rider Haggard's affection for and affinity with the 'Dark Continent' is well known. His adventures featuring Allan Quatermain-the little white hunter, trader and expl...
The third volume of Haggard's African adventures-containing two great novels
Rider Haggard's affection for and affinity with the 'Dark Continent' is well known. His adventures featuring Allan Quatermain-the little white hunter, trader and expl...
Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a century, spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators. Join...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Allan Quatermain’ This sequel to King Solomon's Mines is based on Rider Haggard's own experiences in Africa. During their search for a white race reputed to live ...
This book, although it can be read as a separate story, is the third of the trilogy of which "Marie" and "Child of Storm" are the first two parts. It narrates, through the mouth of Allan Quatermain, the consummation of the vengeance of the wizard Zik...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (1856-1925) was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private 'crammer' in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Off...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Cleopatra.’ The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. Th...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Colonel Quaritch, V.C.’ This is not a typical adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adultery, murder and a buried trea...
Part of the Wildside Fantasy Classics series. The famous ruins in Zimbabwe suggested this story to Haggard, in which he makes this "lost city" the Biblical Ophir, said to have fallen because of the wickedness of its religion and people. As always, a ...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Eric Brighteyes.’ A curious effect of Haggard's successful emulation of the terse, pithy style of saga prose is that the idiom of this novel actually seems rather less dated...
The first of a four volume collection of fantastic stories
H. Rider Haggard's ability to give his audience a good tale well told is not in question. He was one of the most popular authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries an...
The author wishes to state that this tale was written in its present form some time before the discovery in Rhodesia of the fossilized and immeasurably ancient remains of the proto-human person who might well have been one of the Heuheua, the Hairy W...
The final volume in this classic Haggard Historical fiction collection
There are few who have heard of H. Rider Haggard's novels who do not know his principal character-Allan Quatermain-the archetypal white man in Africa. Here was a hero who w...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The Ivory Child.’ The author writes, "It is enough to say that when Allan Quatermain, in the opening sentence of his narrative, speaks of this as 'one of the strangest of al...
The author of such swashbuckling adventures as She and King Solomon’s Mines turns to domestic drama in the 1894 romance. Joan is a shop girl of illegitimate birth -- and a single mother besides. Torn from the love of country-dwelling Captain Henry ...
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator......
Much of H. Rider Haggard's body of work focuses on the globetrotting adventures of grizzled explorer Allan Quatermain. The thought-provoking tale The Mahatma and the Hare finds the author in a more philosophical mood. Almost fable-like in its simplic...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Montezuma's Daughter.’ This remarkable novel by adventure writer H. Rider Haggard can be enjoyed on many levels. As a tale of adventure, it takes the reader through 16th-cen...
HOW CAN A MAN FIGHT AGAINST A GOD? Prince Abi asked the astrologer in an awed voice. Say rather against two gods. for with the Star of Amen goes the Star of Hathor, Queen of Love. Not for many periods of thOusands of years have they been together....
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Mr. Meeson's Will.’ Mr. Meeson's Will is the story of mean Mr. Meeson, the greedy and wealthy owner of a publishing house. Augusta Smithers is a young writer who enters into...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The People of the Mist.’ The People of the Mist is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race and i...
Sir H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) is an important progenitor of modern fantasy and science fiction, and his numerous novels include the classics King Solomon's Mines (1885), She (1886), and Ayesha: The Return of She (1905). If Haggard did not originat...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Red Eve’. Red Eve is a novel by H Rider Haggard set in the reign of Edward III. H. Rider Haggard practically invented the "journey-to-a-lost-civilization" adventure gen...
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘She and Allan.’ "I believe it was the old Egyptians â€" a very wise people, probably indeed much wiser than we know for in the leisure of their ample centuries they had time...
Treasure and the occult are vividly blended in this stirring tale of Africa. Allan Quatermain finds a village in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with a strange knowledge of future events. This is the last Quatermain book....
Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quatermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quatermain books have captivated readers for more than a century, spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators. Includ...
Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quatermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quatermain books have captivated readers for more than a century, spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators. Includ...
The World's Desire (1890) is a fantasy novel about the hero Odysseus. He return home after his second, previously untold journey, to find his home devastated. He then sets out on his last journey, during which he encounters Helen of Troy, to whom...