H. Rider Haggard Books In Order

Allan Quatermain Books In Publication Order

  1. King Solomon’s Mines (1885)
  2. Allan Quatermain (1887)
  3. Allan’s Wife (1887)
  4. Maiwa’s Revenge (1888)
  5. Marie (1912)
  6. Child of Storm (1913)
  7. Holy Flower (1915)
  8. The Ivory Child (1916)
  9. Finished (1917)
  10. The Ancient Allan (1920)
  11. She and Allan (1921)
  12. Heu Heu (1924)
  13. Treasure of the Lake (1926)
  14. Allan Quatermain and the Ice Gods (1927)
  15. Allan’s Wife, with Hunter Quatermain’s Story (1980)
  16. Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others (2002)
  17. Hunter Quatermain’s Story (2003)

Ayesha Books In Publication Order

  1. She (1886)
  2. Ayesha (1905)
  3. Wisdom’s Daughter (1923)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Dawn (1884)
  2. The Witch’s Head (1885)
  3. Jess (1887)
  4. A Tale of Three Lions (1887)
  5. Mr. Meeson’s Will (1888)
  6. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. (1888)
  7. Cleopatra (1889)
  8. Beatrice (1890)
  9. The World’s Desire (1890)
  10. Saga of Eric Brighteyes/Eric Brighteyes (1891)
  11. Nada the Lily (1892)
  12. Montezuma’s Daughter (1893)
  13. The People of the Mist (1894)
  14. Heart of the World (1895)
  15. Joan Haste (1895)
  16. The Wizard (1896)
  17. Doctor Therne (1898)
  18. Swallow (1898)
  19. THE SPRING OF A LION (1899)
  20. The Last Boer War (1899)
  21. Black Heart and White Heart (1900)
  22. Elissa (1900)
  23. Lysbeth (1901)
  24. Pearl-Maiden (1903)
  25. Stella Fregelius (1903)
  26. The Brethren (1904)
  27. Benita/ The Spirit of Bambatse (1906)
  28. The Way of the Spirit (1906)
  29. Fair Margaret (1907)
  30. The Ghost Kings (1908)
  31. The Yellow God (1908)
  32. The Lady of Blossholme (1909)
  33. Morning Star (1910)
  34. Queen Sheba’s Ring (1910)
  35. Red Eve (1911)
  36. The Mahatma and the Hare (1911)
  37. The Wanderer’s Necklace (1914)
  38. Love Eternal (1918)
  39. Moon of Israel (1918)
  40. When the World Shook (1919)
  41. The missionary and the witch-doctor (1920)
  42. Smith and the Pharaohs (1920)
  43. The Virgin of the Sun (1922)
  44. Queen of the Dawn (1925)
  45. Mary of Marion Isle (1929)
  46. Belshazzar (1930)
  47. Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1999)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Cetywayo and His White Neighbours (1882)
  2. A Farmer’s Year (1899)
  3. A Winter Pilgrimage (1901)
  4. Rural England (1902)
  5. A Gardener’s Year (1905)
  6. Regeneration (1910)
  7. Rural Denmark and Its Lessons (1911)
  8. Diary of an African Journey (1914)
  9. After the War Settlement and Employment of Ex-service Men (1916)
  10. The Days of My Life (1926)
  11. The Private Diaries of Sir H. Rider Haggard, 1914-1925 (1980)

Chapbooks In Publication Order

  1. Allan Quatermain’s Wife (1887)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy (2003)

Allan Quatermain Book Covers

Ayesha Book Covers

Standalone Novels Book Covers

Non-Fiction Book Covers

ChapBook Covers

Anthologies Book Covers

H. Rider Haggard Books Overview

King Solomon’s Mines

King Solomon’s Mines, by H. Rider Haggard, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. One of the best selling novels of the nineteenth century, King Solomon’s Mines has inspired dozens of adventure stories, including Edgar Rice Burroughs s Tarzan books and the Indiana Jones movies. Vivid and enormously action packed, H. Rider Haggard s tale of danger and discovery continues to shock and thrill, as it has since it was first presented to the public and heralded as the most amazing book ever written. The story begins when renowned safari hunter Allan Quartermain agrees to help Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good search for King Solomon s legendary cache of diamonds. Eager to find out what is true, what is myth, and what is really buried in the darkness of the mines, the tireless adventurers delve into the Sahara s treacherous Veil of Sand, where they stumble upon a mysterious lost tribe of African warriors. Finding themselves in deadly peril from that country s cruel king and the evil sorceress who conspires behind his throne, the explorers escape, but what they seek could be the most savage trap of all the forbidden, impenetrable, and spectacular King Solomon s Mines. Benjamin Ivry is the author of biographies of Arthur Rimbaud, Francis Poulenc, and Maurice Ravel. His poetry collection Paradise for the Portuguese Queen appeared in 1998.

Allan Quatermain

Sequel to ‘King Solomon’s Mines’, this adventure story is about three men and their guide, who trek into remote Africa in search of a lost white race. Their perilous journey takes them to Zu Vendis, a kingdom ruled by the beautiful twin sisters, Nyleptha and Sorais.

Allan’s Wife

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

Maiwa’s Revenge

Title: Maiwa’s Revenge; or, the War of the Little Hand.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.

The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire.

++++
The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++

British Library
Haggard, H. Rider;
null
8..
012633.m.3.

Marie

The youthful Allan Quatermain is bound for strange adventures, in the company of the ill fated Pieter Retief and the Boer Commission, on an embassy to the Zulu despot, Dingaan. Yet he is bound, too, for one of the deepest romances of his life for in Marie he tells of his courtship and marriage to his first wife, Marie Marais. ‘In 1836, hate and suspicion ran high between the Home Government and its Dutch subjects,’ wrote Haggard himself about the southern African context of this novel. ‘Owing to the freeing of the slaves and mutual misunderstandings, the Cape Colony was then in tumult, almost in rebellion, and the Boers, by thousands, sought new homes in the unknown, savage peopled North. Of this blood stained time I have tried to tell; of the Great Trek and its tragedies, such as the massacre of the true hearted Retief and his companions at the hands of the Zulu king, Dingaan!’ H. Rider Haggard 1856 1925, master tale spinner of African adventure, in Marie tells a story in the tradition of King Solomon’s Mines and Child of Storm.

Child of Storm

Webster’s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in other works of literature, conversation, or academic examinations. Extremely rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority in the notes compared to words which are difficult, and often encountered in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language, and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. If a difficult word is not noted on a page, chances are that it has been highlighted on a previous page. A more complete thesaurus is supplied at the end of the book; synonyms and antonyms are extracted from Webster’s Online Dictionary. PSAT is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE , AP and Advanced Placement are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.

Holy Flower

Now I, the listener, thought for a moment or two. The words of this fighting savage, Mavovo, even those of them of which I had heard only the translation, garbled and beslavered by the mean comments of the unutterable Sammy, stirred my imagination. Who was I that I should dare to judge of him and his wild, unknown gifts? Who was I that I should mock at him and by my mockery intimate that I believed him to be a fraud?

The Ivory Child

Allan Quartermain returns in another adventure! After he finds an illusive and rare orchid from Africa, he returns to England with Mr. Scroope. While he visits Lord Randall, two foreigners come asking for Macumazana that is, asking for Allan Quartermain by the name he used umong the Africans. The two visitors are Har t and Mar t, priests and doctors of the White Kendah People, and they have come to ask Allan Quartermain for his help. The White Kendah people are at war with the Black Kendah people who have an evil spirit for a god. And that spirit of the god resides in the largest elephant they have ever seen, an elephant that no man can kill save Allan Quartermain. And now our intrepid hero must return to Africa and destroy this evil spirit before it kills every one of the White Kendah People. H. Rider Haggard was an English author known for his fantastic adventure stories as well as his sympathetic portrayal of native peoples. He is best known for creating the fictional character Allan Quartermain, a character that has been resurrected as a comic book hero in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The Ivory Child is the sequel to The Holy Flower and the ninth novel in the Allan Quartermain series.

Finished

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II MR. MARNHAM So Much for preliminaries, now for the story. The eighteen months had gone by, bringing with them to me their share of adventure, weal and woe, with all of which at present I have no concern. Behold me arriving very hot and tired in the post cart from Kimberley whither I had gone to invest what I had saved out of my Matabeleland contract in a very promising speculation whereof, to day, the promise remains and no more. I had been obliged to leave Kimberley in a great hurry, before I ought indeed, because of the silly bargain which I have just recorded. Of course I was sure that I should never see Mr. Ans combe again, especially as I had heard nothing of him during all this while, and had no reason to suppose that he was in Africa. Still I had taken his 50 and he might come. Also I have always prided myself upon keeping an appointment. The post cart halted with a jerk in front of the European Hotel, and I crawled, dusty and tired, from its interior, to find myself face to face with Anscombe who was smoking a pipe upon the stoep! ‘ Hello, Quatermain,’ he said in his pleasant, drawling voice, ‘ here you are, up to time. I have been making bets with these five gentlemen,’ and he nodded at a group of loungers on the stoep, ‘ as to whether you would or would not appear, I putting ten to one onyou in drinks. Therefore you must now consume five whiskies and sodas, which will save them from consuming fifty and a subsequent appearance at the Police Court.’ I laughed and said I would be their debtor to the extent of one, which was duly produced. After it was drunk Anscombe and I had a chat. He said that he had been to India, shot, or shot at whatever game he meant to kill there, visited his relations in England and thence proceeded to keep his ap…

The Ancient Allan

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

She and Allan

I believe it was the old Egyptians, a very wise people, probably indeed much wiser than we know, for in the leisure of their ample centuries they had time to think out things, who declared that each individual personality is made up of six or seven different elements, although the Bible only allows us three, namely, body, soul, and spirit. The body that the man or woman wore, if I understand their theory aright which perhaps I, an ignorant person, do not, was but a kind of sack or fleshly covering containing these different principles. Or mayhap it did not contain them all, but was simply a house as it were, in which they lived from time to time and seldom all together, although one or more of them was present conti nually, as though to keep the place warmed and aired. This is but a casual illustrative suggestion, for what right have I, Allan Quatermain, out of my little reading and probably erroneous deductions, to form any judgment as to the theories of the old Egyptians? Still these, as I understand them, suffice to furnish me with the text that man is not one, but many, in which connection it may be remembered that often in Scripture he is spoken of as being the home of many demons, seven, I think. Also, to come to another far off example, the Zulus talk of their witch doctors as being inhabited by ‘a multitude of spirits.’

Heu Heu

Large format paper back for easy reading. One of the celebrated Allan Quatermain series of adventure novels from the author of King Solomo’s Mines

Treasure of the Lake

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

Allan Quatermain and the Ice Gods

The final volume in the Allan Quatermain saga finds Quatermain reliving a past life, when he lived as part of a clan of cavemen during an ice age. Rousing action adventure in the great Haggard style!

Allan’s Wife, with Hunter Quatermain’s Story

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others

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 Mahatma and the Hare,’ ‘Black Heart and White Heart’.

She

Boys are mysterious creatures, with rich imaginations and inner lives at which most can only guess. Luckily, a few writers have the talent to capture their fantasies of extraordinary adventure and epic bravery. Inspired by the success of The Dangerous Book For Boys, the six titles of the Penguin Great Books For Boys collection celebrate the adventurer within every boy with tales of shipwreck, murder, espionage, and survival. With a striking series look that is nostalgic and, at the same time, completely modern, these Great Books For Boys are sure to appeal to boys young and old.

Leo Vincey’s father has left him a mysterious casket in his will, which can only be opened on his twenty fifth birthday. When the day arrives Leo unlocks it to discover ancient scrolls, a fragment of pottery marked with strange inscriptions and a letter. Its contents reveal a mystery that Leo must travel all the way to Africa to solve, taking him on an adventure beyond his wildest imaginings.

Sailing across stormy seas to Zanzibar, Leo endures shipwreck, fever and cannibal attacks, before coming face to face with Ayesha, She who must be obeyed: the beautiful, tyrannical ruler of a lost civilization. She has been waiting hundreds of years for the true descendant of her dead lover to arrive. And arrive he does with terrifying consequences.

Ayesha

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

Wisdom’s Daughter

1923. What was the greatest fault of Ayesha, She Who Must be Obeyed? Surely a vanity so colossal that, to take one out of many examples, it persuaded her that her mother died after looking upon her, fearing lest, should she live, she might give birth to another child who was less fair. At least, as her story shows, it was vanity, rather than love of the beauteous Greek, Kallikrates, that stained the hands of She with his innocent blood and, amongst other ills, brought upon her the fearful curse of deathlessness while still inhabiting a sphere where Death is lord of all. Thus it seemed that by denial she would have escaped the net of many woes in which she is still entangled and of Ayesha, Daughter of Wisdom yet Folly’s Salve, there would have been no tale to tell and there would have been no lesson to be learned. But Vanity or was it Fate? led her down another road.

Dawn

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

The Witch’s Head

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

Jess

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. PREPARING TO RECEIVE COMPANY. LEEBY was at the fire braudering a quarter of steak on the tongs, when the house was flung into consternation by Hendry’s casual remark that he had seen Tibbie Mealmaker in the town with her man. ‘ The Lord preserve’s ! ‘ cried Leeby. Jess looked quickly at the clock. ‘ Half fower ! ‘ she said, excitedly. ‘ Then it canna be dune,’ said Leeby, falling despairingly into a chair, ‘ for they may be here ony meenute.’ ‘ It’s most michty,’ said Jess, turning on her husband, ‘ ‘at ye should tak a pleasure in bringin’ this hoose to disgrace. Hoo did ye no tell’s suner ?’ ‘ I fair forgot,’ Hendry answered, ‘ but what’s a’ yer steer ? ‘ Jess looked at me she often did this in a way that meant, ‘ What a man is this I’m tied toj’ ‘ Steer ! ‘ she exclaimed. ‘ Is’t no time we was makkin’ a steer ? They’ll be in for their tea ony meenute, an’ the room no sae muckle as sweepit. Ay, an’ me lookin’ like a sweep; an’ Tibbie Mealmaker’at’s sae partikler genteel seein’ you sic a sicht as ye are!’ Jess shook Hendry out of his chair, while Leeby began to sweep with the one hand, and agitatedly to unbutton her wrapper with the other. ‘ She didna see me,’ said Hendry, sitting down forlornly on the table. ‘Get aff that table!.’ cried Jess. ‘See haud o’ the besom,’ she said to Leeby. ‘For mercy’s sake, mother,’ said Leeby, ‘gie yer face a dicht, an’ put on a clean mutch.’ ‘ I’ll open the door if they come afore you’re ready,’ said Hendry, as Leeby pushed him against the dresser. ‘ Ye daur to speak aboot opeuin’ the door, an’ you sic a mess !’ cried Jess, with pins in her mouth. ‘ Havers! ‘ retorted Hendry. ‘ A man canna be aye washin’ at ‘imsel’.’ Seeing that Hendry was as much in the way as myself, 1 invited…

A Tale of Three Lions

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Novelists, English; British; Africa; Novelists, English/ 19th century/ Diaries; British/ Africa/ History/ 19th century; Africa Description and travel; Novelists, English 19th century; Haggard, H. Rider; Haggard, H. Rider Travel Africa; British Africa History 19th century; Biography

Mr. Meeson’s Will

Henry Rider Haggard was a British Victorian writer known for his adventure novels set in exotic places. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa as assistant secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Nata, Sir Henry Bulwer. His larger than life adventurers in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe would appear in many of his stories. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. His writings are sympathetic to the natives. He often portrayed Africans as heroic in his stories even though the main characters are usually European. Haggard created the Allan Quatermain adventures. 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 an unfair contract with Meeson. In order to make a fresh start she boards a steamer bound for New Zealand only to find her enemy is on the same ship. After a collision with a whaler Augusta, Meeson and several others are washed up on one of the lonely Kerguelen Islands, in the south Indian Ocean. Before his death Meeson tattoos his will on Augusta’s back. This leads to a very interesting court battle in the second half of the book. The novel is at once a tale of adventure, a critique of the publishing industry in late 19th century England, and a satire on the English legal system.

Colonel Quaritch, V.C.

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

Beatrice

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

The World’s Desire

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE SLAYING OF THE SIDONIANS. Morning broke in the East. A new day dawned upon the silent sea, and on the world of light and sound. The sunrise topped the hill at last, and fell upon the golden raiment of the Wanderer where he slept, making it blaze like living fire. As the sun touched him, the prow of a black ship stole swiftly round the headland, for the oarsmen drove her well with the oars. Any man who saw her would have known her to be a vessel of the merchants of Sidon the most cunning people and the greediest of gain for on her prow were two big headed shapes of dwarfs, with gaping mouths and knotted limbs. Such gods as those were worshipped by the Sidonians. She was now returning from Albion, an isle beyond the pillars of Heracles and the gates of the great sea, where much store of tin is found; and she had rich merchandise on board. On the half deck beside the steersman was the captain, a thin, keen eyed sailor, who looked shoreward and paw the sun blaze on the golden armour of lln’ Yandprpr. They were so far off that he could not see clearly what it was that glittered yellow, but all that glittered yellow was a lurefor him, and gold drew him on as iron draws the hands of heroes. So he bade the helmsman steer straight in, for the sea was deep below the rock, and there they all saw a man lying asleep in golden armour. They whispered together, laughing silently, and then sprang ashore, taking with them a rope of twisted ox hide, a hawser of the ship, and a strong cable of byblus, the papyrus plant. On these ropes they cast a loop and a running knot, a lasso for throwing, so that they might capture the man in safety from a distance. With these in their hands they crept up the cliff, for their purpose was to noose the man in golden armour, and drag him…

Saga of Eric Brighteyes/Eric Brighteyes

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. HOW ASMUND THE PRIEST WAS BETROTHED TO UNNA. For a moment there was silence, for all that company was wonderstruck at the greatness of the deed. Then they cheered and cheered again, and to Eric it seemed that he slept, and the sound of shouting reached him but faintly, as though he heard through snow. Suddenly he woke and saw a man rush at him with axe aloft. It was Mord, Ospakar’s son, mad at his father’s overthrow. Eric sprang aside, or the blow had been his bane, and, as he sprang, smote with his fist, and it struck heavily on the head of Mord above the ear, so that the axe flew from his hand, and he fell senseless on his father in the snow. Now swords flashed out, and men ringed round Eric to guard him, and it came near to the spilling of blood, for the people of Ospakar gnashed their teeth to see so great a hero overthrown by a youngling, while the southern folk of Middalhof and Ran River rejoiced loudly, for Eric was dear to their hearts. ‘Down swords,’ cried Asmund the Priest, ‘and haul yon carcass from the snow.’ This then they did, and Ospakar sat up, breathing in great gasps, the blood running from his mouth and ears, and he was an evil sight to see, for what with blood and snow and rage his face was like the face of the Swinefell Goblin. But Swanhild spoke in the ear of Gudruda ‘ Here,’ she said, looking at Eric, ‘ we two have a man worth loving, foster sister.’ ‘ Ay,’ answered Gudruda, ‘ worth and well worth!’ Now Asmund drew near and before all men kissed Eric Brighteyes on the brow. ‘In sooth,’ he said, ‘thou art a mighty man, Eric, and the glory of the south. This I prophesy of thee : that thou shalt do deeds such as have not been done in Iceland. Thou hast been ill served, for a knave unknown greased thy shoes. Yon swa…

Nada the Lily

Nada the Lily is the thrilling story of the brave Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and his love for the most beautiful of Zulu women, Nada the Lily. Young Umslopogaas, son of the bloodthirsty Zulu king Chaka, is forced to flee when Chaka orders his death. In the adventures that ensue, Umslopogaas is carried away by a lion and then rescued by Galazi, king of an army of ghost wolves. Together, Umslopogaas and Galazi fight for glory and honour and to avenge their wrongs. With their fabled weapons, an axe called Groan Maker and the club Watcher of the Woods, the two men become legendary warriors. But even these two unstoppable heroes may finally have met their match when the Zulu king sends his army of slayers to destroy them! Although he is more famous for his romances King Solomon’s Mines 1885 and She 1887, the unjustly neglected Nada the Lily 1892 is one of H. Rider Haggard’s finest achievements. Nada the Lily is a dazzling blend of adventure, romance, fantasy, and the Gothic, brilliantly weaving fiction and history into an unforgettable tale. This edition features a new introduction and notes by Haggard scholar Gerald Monsman. Also included in this edition is an appendix containing excerpts from Haggard’s sources.

Montezuma’s Daughter

I, Thomas Wingfield, of the Lodge and the parish of Ditchingham in the county of Norfolk, being now of a great age and having only a short time to live, turn to pen and ink. Ten years ago, namely, in the year 1578, it pleased her Majesty, our gracious Queen Elizabeth, who at that date visited this county, that I should be brought before her at Norwich. There and then, saying that the fame of it had reached her, she commanded me to give her some particulars of the story of my life, or rather of those twenty years, more or less, which I spent among the Indians at that time when Cortes conquered their country of Anahuac, which is now known as Mexico. From the imagination of the author of She and King Solomon’s Mines comes the engrossing adventure of Thomas Wingfield, eyewitness to the ravages of the Spanish upon the New World. Wingfield barely survives the Spanish Inquisition, shipwreck, and slavery. He then marries the beautiful Montezuma’s Daughter. But tragedy and vengeance skulk in the wings of whirling pages! You will never forget Montezuma’s Daughter

The People of the Mist

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: though not fast enough to obscure the light of the moon which shone through the belt of firs. Leonard walked on down the drive till he n eared the gate, when suddenly he heard the muffled sound of feet pursuing him through the snow. He turned with an exclamation, believing that the footsteps were those of Arthur Beach, for at the moment he was in no mood for further conversation with any male member of that family. As it chanced, however, he found himself face to face not with Arthur, but with Jane herself, who perhaps had never looked more beautiful than she did at this moment in the snow and the moonlight. Indeed, whenever Leonard thought of her in after years, and that was often, there arose in his mind a vision of a tall and lovely girl, her auburn hair slightly powdered over with the falling flakes, her breast heaving with emotion, and her wide grey eyes gazing piteously upon him. Oh ! Leonard,’ she said nervously, ‘ why do you go without saying good bye to me ?’ He looked at her a while before he answered, for something in his heart told him that this was the last sight which he should win of his love for many a year, and therefore his eyes dwelt upon her as we gaze upon one whom the grave is about to hide from us for ever. At last he spoke, and his words were practical enough. ‘You should not have come out in those thin shoes through the snow, Jane. You will catch cold.’ ‘ I wish I could,’ she answered defiantly, ‘ I wish that I could catch such a cold as would kill me; then I should be out of my troubles. Let us go into the summer house, they will never think of looking for me there.’ ‘How will you get there ? ‘ asked Leonard ; ‘it is a hundred yards away, and the snow always drifts in that path.’ ‘ Oh ! never mind the snow,’ she said. But Leon…

Heart of the World

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

The Wizard

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

Doctor Therne

AUTHOR’S NOTE. SOME months since the leaders of the Government disnlayed their supporters and astonished the world by a sudden surrender to the clamour of the anti-vaccinationists. In the space of a single evening they thre’v to the agitators the ascertained results of generations of the medical faculty, the teachings of common experience and what are understood to be their own convictions. After one ineffectual fight the House of Lords answered to the whip, and, under the guise of a ‘graceful concession,’ the health of the country was given without appeal into the hand of the ‘Conscientious Obi ector ‘. ‘ In his perplexity it has occurred to an observer of these events-as a person who in other lands has seen and learned something of the ravages of small pox anlong the unvaccinated-to try to forecast their natural and, in the vie,v of many, their alnlost certain end. Hence these pages from the life history of the pitiable, but unfortunate Dr. Therne.1

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAPTER PJlOE; 1 THE DILIGENCE 1; II THE HACIENDA 27; III SIR JOHN BELL 43; IV STEPHEN STRONG GOES BAIL ? 64; V THE TRIAL 85; VI THE GATE OF DARKNESS 110; VII CROSSING THE RUBICON ? 127; VIII BRAVO THE AV’s 142; IX FORTUNE 164; X JANE MEETS DR lIERCHISON 182; XI THE COMING OF THE RED HEADED MAN 198; XII THE SHADOW OF PESTILENCE 28; XIII HARVEST 232

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books’ Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the diff

The Last Boer War

This is a pre 1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Black Heart and White Heart

Before the beginning of this story of the most remarkable episodes in his life, Philip Hadden was engaged for several years in transport riding carrying goods on ox waggons from Durban or Maritzburg to various points in the interior of Africa. On arriving at the little frontier town of Utrecht in the Transvaal, in charge of two waggon loads of mixed goods consigned to a storekeeper there, it was discovered that five cases of brandy were missing from his waggon. The storekeeper called him a thief and the two men came to blows. Before anybody could interfere, the storekeeper received a nasty wound in his side. That night, Hadden trekked back into Natal, loaded up with Kaffir goods such as blankets, calico, and hardware and crossed into Zululand, where no sheriff’s officer would be likely to follow. Being well acquainted with the language and customs of the natives, he did good trade with them, and soon found himself possessed of some cash and a small herd of cattle, which he received in exchange for his wares. Meanwhile news reached him that the man whom he had injured still vowed vengeance against him, and was in communication with the authorities in Natal. These reasons making his return to civilisation undesirable for the moment, and further business being impossible until he could receive a fresh supply of trade stuff, Hadden like a wise man turned his thoughts to pleasure. Sending his cattle and waggon over the border to be left in charge of a native headman with whom he was friendly, he went on foot to Ulundi to obtain permission from the king, Cetywayo, to hunt game in his country. Somewhat to his surprise, the Indunas or headmen, received him courteously for Hadden’s visit took place within a few months of the outbreak of the Zulu war in 1878, when Cetywayo was already showing unfriendliness to the English traders and others…
.

Elissa

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

Lysbeth

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

Pearl-Maiden

Miriam is a Christian during a time when the Romans are feeding Christians to the lions. She is brought up by the Essenes for her parents died before she was a year old. There, she hides from the Romans, learning what the Essenes taught her in language and in arts. It turns out that she has a great talent for sculpture. And when a Roman named Marcus comes to investigate a murder in the Essenes’ village, Miriam creates a sculpture of him as a gift. It is because they have a great affection for each other. Unfortunately, Marcus is a pagan, which means that Miriam cannot marry him. Amongst plots to overthrow Rome, assassinations, and revolt, will their love survive it all? And can they overcome their differences to live happily ever after? H. Rider Haggard was an English author known for his fantastic adventure stories as well as his sympathetic portrayal of native peoples. He is best known for creating the fictional character Allan Quartermain. A character that has been resurrected as a comic book hero in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Sean Connery played the role of Allan Quartermain in the film adaptation of the comic. The Pearl Maiden is considered a companion piece to Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus.

Stella Fregelius

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

The Brethren

‘Standing a while ago upon the flower clad plain above Tiberius, by the Lake of Galilee, the writer gazed at the double peaks of the Hill of Hattin. Here, or so tradition says, Christ preached the Sermon on the Mount that perfect rule of gentleness and peace. Here, too and this is certain after nearly twelve centuries had gone by, Yusuf Salah ed din, whom we know as the Sultan Saladin, crushed the Christian power in Palestine in perhaps the most terrible battle which that land of blood has known. Thus the Mount of the Beatitudes became the Mount of Massacre. Whilst musing on these strangely contrasted scenes enacted in one place there arose in his mind a desire to weave, as best he might, a tale wherein any who are drawn to the romance of that pregnant and mysterious epoch, when men by thousands were glad to lay down their lives for visions and spiritual hopes, could find a picture, however faint and broken, of the long war between Cross and Crescent waged among the Syrian plains and deserts. Of Christian knights and ladies also, and their loves and sufferings in England and the East; of the fearful lord of the Assassins whom the Franks called Old Man of the Mountain, and his fortress city, Masyaf. Of the great hearted, if at times cruel Saladin and his fierce Saracens; of the rout at Hattin itself, on whose rocky height the Holy Rood was set up as a standard and captured, to be seen no more by Christian eyes; and of the Iast surrender, whereby the Crusaders lost Jerusalem forever. Of that desire this story is the fruit.’ H. Rider Haggard

Benita/ The Spirit of Bambatse

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. HOW ROBERT CAME ASHORE. In place of the Zanzibar a great pit on the face of the ocean, in which the waters boiled and black objects appeared and disappeared. ‘ Sit still, for your lives’ sake,’ said the officer in a quiet voice ; ‘ the suck is coming.’ In another minute it came, dragging them downward till the water trickled over the sides of the boat, and backward towards the pit. But before ever they reached it the deep had digested its prey, and, save for the great air bubbles which burst about them and a mixed, unnatural swell, was calm again. For the moment they were safe. ‘ Passengers,’ said the officer, ‘ I am going to put out to sea at any rate, till daylight. We may meet a vessel there, and if we try to row ashore we shall certainly be swamped in the breakers.’ No one objected; they seemed too stunned to speak, but Robert thought to himself that the man was wise. They began to move, but before they had gone a dozen yards something dark rose beside them. It was a piece of wreckage, and clinging to it a woman, whoclasped a bundle to her breast. More, she was alive, for she began to cry to them to take her in. ‘ Save me and my child!’ she cried. ‘ For God’s sake save me! ‘ Robert recognised the choking voice; it was that of a young married lady with whom he had been very friendly, who was going out with her baby to join her husband in Natal. He stretched out his hand and caught hold of her, whereon the officer said, heavily : ‘ The boat is already overladen. I must warn you that to take more abroad is not safe.’ Thereon the passengers awoke from their stupor. ‘ Push her off,’ said a voice ; ‘ she must take her chance.’ And there was a murmur of approval at the dreadful words. ‘ For Christ’s sake for Christ’s sake ! ‘ wailed th…

The Way of the Spirit

A story of love, pain, the supernatural, and a love that survives the grave.

Fair Margaret

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

The Ghost Kings

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

The Yellow God

H. Rider Haggard 1856-1925 was the eighth of ten children, and after an unimpressive childhood entered public service as a secretary to the governor of Natal. His career soon took him to the Transvaal in Africa. However, after two years he resigned, bought an ostrich farm, and then returned to England to marry. He went back to Africa and the ostrich farm with his wife, but it was close to the Boer rebellion and they soon gave up and returned to England. There Haggard embarked on his writing career, publishing two novels and a study of the Zulus, while also beginning a law career.

When his books failed to create much interest in the public, Haggard continued his legal studies and was called to the bar in 1885. However, that was the same year he wrote King Solomon’s Mines-whose success was instant and spectacular, making him one of England’s most popular writers. His second novel, She 1886, proved just as popular and cemented his relationship with the reading public.

Over the next forty years, Haggard created an impressive body of work which includes several famous ‘lost race’ novels. His popularity rivaled that of Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, all of whose fame has been more lasting..

If Haggard-one of the greatest adventure writers of all time-is remembered now, it is for his novels featuring Allan Quatermain, a hero whose exploits form the most important sequence of his books. Quatermain’s life is chronicled in such novels as King Solomon’s Mines, Allan Quaterman, She, and many others.

However, despite the importance of the Quaterman books, few of Haggard’s other novels are remembered, even though they are quite interesting in their own right. Nada the Lily is the first of four books about the Zulus, all of which are excellent. Eric Brighteyes is rich, fantasy-laden Icelandic saga. The World’s Desire written with Andrew Lang is a fantasy about the characters in The Odyssey. And there are numerous other titles many of them reprinted by Wildside Press as part of the Wildside Fantasy Classics series, which brings undeservingly lost books back into print.

The Yellow God, originally published in 1908, is another of Haggard’s African novels, and it features many elements of the fantastic, such as a magic mask and fetish objects, a lost race, reincarnation, and an immortal woman whose many husbands she has preserved as mummies! It certainly more than stands its own as a thrilling adventure novel.

The Lady of Blossholme

WHO that has ever seen them can forget the ruins of Blossholme Abbey, set upon their mount between the great waters of the tidal estuary to the north, the rich lands and grazing marshes that, backed with ,voods, border it east and south, and to the west by the rolling uplands, merging at last into purple moor, and, far away, the sombre eternal hills! Probably the scene has not changed very much since the days of Henry VIII, when those things happened of which we have to tell, for here no large town has arisen, nor have mines been dug or factories built to affront the earth and defile the air with their hideousness and smoke. The village of Blossholme we know has scarcely varied in its population, for the old records tell us this, and as there is no railway here its aspect must be much the same. Houses built of the local grey stone do not readily fall down. The folk of that generation walked in and out of the doorways of many of them, although the roofs for the most p

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; PAGE; SIR JOHN FOTERELL I; CHAPTER II; THE MURDER BY THE MERE; CHAPTER III; A WEDDING 34; CHAPTER IV; THE ABBOT’S OATH so; CHAPTER V; WHAT PASSED AT CRANWELL 66; CHAPTER VI; EMLYN’S CURSE ? 88 CONTENTS; CHAPTER VII; PAGE; THE ABBOT’S OFFER 105; CHAPTER VIII; EMLYN CALLS HER MAN; CHAPTER IX; THE BLOSSHOLlIE WITCHINGS; CHAPTER X; MOTHER MEGGES AND THE GHOST; CHAPTER XI; DOOMED; CHAPTER XII; THE STAKE ; CHAPTER XIII; THE MESSENGER ?; CHAPTER XIV; JACOB AND THE JEWELS CONTENTS Vll; CHAPTER XV; THE DEVIL AT COURT 245; CHAPTER XVI; THE VOICE IN THE FOREST ?; CHAPTER XVII; BETWEEN DOOM AND HONOUR 279; CHAPTER XVIII; OUT OF THE SHADOWS 297

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion

Morning Star

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant-Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger-than-life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best-selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

Queen Sheba’s Ring

1926. Haggard was an English writer, who published colorful novels set in unknown regions and lost kingdoms of Africa, or some other corner of the world: Iceland, Constantinople, Mexico, Ancient Egypt. His best known work is the romantic adventure tale King Solomon’s Mines. Although Haggard’s novels first were written for adults, several of them, such as Queen Sheba’s Ring are now categorized as juvenile literature. This story takes place in the uncharted regions of Africa, where a Jewish community struggles to defend itself from barbaric tribes. Contents: The Coming of the Ring; The Advice of Sergeant Quick; The Professor Goes Out Shooting; The Death Wind; Pharaoh Makes Trouble; How We Escaped from Harmac; Barung; The Shadow of Fate; The Swearing of the Oath; Quick Lights a Match; The Rescue Fails; The Den of Lions; The Adventures of Higgs; How Pharaoh Met Shadrach; Sergeant Quick Has a Presentiment; Harmac Comes to Mur; I Find My Son; The Burning of the Palace; Starvation; and The Trial and After. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Red Eve

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

The Wanderer’s Necklace

Of my childhood in this Olaf life I can regain but little. There come to me, however, recollections of a house, surrounded by a moat, situated in a great plain near to seas or inland lakes, on which plain stood mounds that I connected with the dead. What the dead were I did not quite understand, but I gathered that they were people who, having once walked about and been awake, now laid themselves down in a bed of earth and slept. I remember looking at a big mound which was said to cover a chief known as ‘The Wanderer,’ whom Freydisa, the wise woman, my nurse, told me had lived hundreds or thousands of years before, and thinking that so much earth over him must make him very hot at nights. I remember also that the hall called Aar was a long house roofed with sods, on which grew grass and sometimes little white flowers, and that inside of it cows were tied up. We lived in a place beyond, that was separated off from the cows by balks of rough timber. I used to watch them being milked through a crack between two of the balks where a knot had fallen out, leaving a convenient eyehole about the height of a walking stick from the floor.

Love Eternal

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

Moon of Israel

Moon of Israel 1918 was one of the earliest Haggard books to be filmed in 1924, as a silent movie directed by Michael Curtiz. The movie adaptation has been released both as Moon of Israel and The Slave Queen. Interestingly, Paramount bought the original film and suppressed it so it wouldn’t complete with the release of DeMille’s original silent version of The Ten Commandments.

As a book, it is an exceptional retelling of the Biblical story of the Exodus. I’m certain most modern readers will be familiar with the original story. By selecting an unlikely viewpoint character-the scribe Ana-Haggard provides a down-to-earth narrator for a story of fantastic proportion. The novel was first serialized in The Cornhill Magazine from January through October in 1918 and released in book for in October 1918.

Author and critic Jessica Amanda Salmonson has called Moon of Israel ‘a beautifully written Jewish legend,’ and adds, ‘Haggard was pro-Zionist advocating a Jewish homeland in Palestine as early as 1915.’

It is clear that this book was important to Haggard, and fans of his historical epics will find themselves right at home in its pages.

When the World Shook

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II BASTIN AND BICKLEY Behold me once more a man without an occupation, but now the possessor of about 900,000. It was a very considerable fortune, if not a large one in England; nothing like the millions of which I had dreamed, but still enough. To make the most of it and to be sure that it remained, I invested it very well, mostly in large mortgages at four per cent, which, if the security is good, do not depreciate in capital value. Never again did I touch a single speculative stock, who desired to think no more about money. It was at this time that I bought the Fulcombe property. It cost me about 120,000 of my capital, or with alterations, repairs, etc., say 150,000, on which sum it may pay a net two and a half per cent., not more. This 3,700 odd I have always devoted to the upkeep of the place, which is therefore in first rate order. The rest I live on, or save. These arrangements, with the beautifying and furnishing of the house and the restoration of the church in memory of my father, occupied and amused me for a year or so, but when they were finished time began to hang heavy on my hands. What was the use of possessing about 20,000 a year when there was nothing upon which it could be spent? For after all my own wants were few and simple and the acquisition of valuable pictures and costly furniture is limited by space. Oh! in my small way I was like the weary King Ecclesiast. For I too made me great works and had possessions of great and small cattle I tried farming and lost money over it! and gathered me silver and gold and the peculiar treasure of kings, which I presume means whatever a man in authority chiefly desires, and so forth. But ‘behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.’ So, notwithsta…

Smith and the Pharaohs

ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you.A unique work that glorifies the ancient Egypt is presented here by Haggard. With theme of reincarnation and events of tomb hunting, the work is bound to thrill you. It presents ancient royalty putting a man of today on trial for crimes of other men. A convention of ghosts has also been presented in an astounding manner. Amazing!To find more titles in your format, Search in Books using EasyRead and the size of the font that makes reading easier and more enjoyable for you.

The Virgin of the Sun

I, Hubert of Hastings, write this in the land of Tavantinsuyu, far from England, where I was born, whither I shall never more return, being a wanderer as the rune upon the sword of my ancestor, Thorgrimmer, foretold that I should be, which sword my mother gave me on the day of the burning of Hastings by the French. I write it with a pen that I have shaped from a wing feather of the great eagle of the mountains, with ink that I have made from the juices of certain herbs which I discovered, and on parchment that I have split from the skins of native sheep, with my own hands, but badly I fear, though I have seen that art practised when I was a merchant of the Cheap in London Town. I will begin at the beginning. I am the son of a fishing boat owner and was a trader in the ancient town of Hastings, and my father was drowned while following his trade at sea. Afterwards, being the only child left of his, I took on his business, and on a certain day went out to sea to net fish with two of my serving men. I was then a young man of about three and twenty years of age and not uncomely.

Queen of the Dawn

Excerpt:THE DREAM OF RIMATHERE was war in Egypt and Egypt was rent in two. At Memphis in the north, at Tanis, and in all the rich lands of the Delta where by many mouths the Nile flows down to the sea, a usurping race held power, whose forefathers, generations before, had descended upon Egypt like a flood, destroyed its temples and deposed its gods, possessing themselves of the wealth of the land. At Thebes in the south the descendants of the ancient Pharaohs still ruled precariously, again and again attempting to drive out the fierce Semitic or Bedouin kings, named the Shepherds, whose banners flew from the walls of all the northern cities. They failed because they were too weak, indeed the hour of their final victory was yet far away and of it our tale does not tell. Nefra the Princess, she who was named the Beautiful and afterwards was known as Uniter of Lands, was the only child of one of these Theban Antefs, Kheperra, born of his Queen, Rima, daughter of Ditanah, the King of Babylon, who had given her to him in marriage to strengthen him in his struggle against the Shepherds, also called the Aati or ‘ Plague bearers.’ Nefra was the first and only child of this marriage, for shortly after she was born Kheperra the King, her father, with all the host that he could gather, went down Nile to fight the Aati who marched to meet him from Tanis and from Memphis.

Belshazzar

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

In this Gateway Movie Classic, a British adventurer finds himself at odds with the two beautiful sisters who rule Zu Vendis in Africa. A struggle is imminent who will emerge the victor?

Cetywayo and His White Neighbours

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

A Winter Pilgrimage

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 Office, for which he never sat. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger than life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best selling novel King Solomon’s Mines 1885. Amongst his other works are She 1887, Allan Quatermain 1888, Eric Brighteyes 1891 and Ayesha 1895.

A Gardener’s Year

This is a pre 1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Regeneration

Henry Rider Haggard was a British Victorian writer known for his adventure novels set is exotic places. Haggard’s father sent him to Africa as assistant secretary to Lieutenant Governor of Nata, Sir Henry Bulwer. Haggard wrote about agricultural and social reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. 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 founded by this man and his wife is now established and, in most instances, firmly rooted in 56 Countries and Colonies, where it preaches the Gospel in 33 separate languages: that it has over 16,000 Officers wholly employed in its service, and publishes 74 periodicals in 20 tongues, with a total circulation of nearly 1,000,000 copies per issue: that it accommodates over 28,000 poor people nightly in its Institutions, maintaining 229 Food Depots and Shelters for men, women, and children, and 157 Labour Factories where destitute or characterless people are employed: that it has 17 Homes for ex criminals, 37 Homes for children, 116 Industrial Homes for the rescue of women, 16 Land Colonies, 149 Slum Stations for the visitation and assistance of the poor, 60 Labour Bureaux for helping the unemployed, and 521 Day Schools for children: that, in addition to all these, it has Criminal and General Investigation Departments, Inebriate Homes for men and women, Inquiry Offices for tracing lost and missing people, Maternity Hospitals, 37 Homes for training Officers, Prison visitation Staffs, and so on almost _ad infinitum_.’

Diary of an African Journey

In 1914, H. Rider Haggardadventure novelist, diplomat, farmer, lawyer, and, above all, renowned author of such classic and influential bestsellers as King Solomon’s Mines and Shereturned to South Africa, the country that had fired his literary imagination, for the first time in a quarter century. Haggard, whose work is today considered a prototype of colonial literature, barely recognized the Africa of his youth. The discovery of gold, the destruction of the Zulu kingdom, and the aftermath of the Anglo Boer war had all radically transformed the political, cultural, and often physical landscape. No longer the diehard imperialist of his youth, when conquest and colonization were the order of the day, Haggard toured southern Africa extensively during this trip, acquiring an impression of black politics and even meeting the first president of the African National Congress, John Dube. This is the chronicle, in Haggard’s own hand, of that journey. A remarkable literary find, written by a man who helped shape Western perceptions of Africa, this hitherto unpublished manuscript presents a portrait both surprising and in some ways familiar of Africa and of a central figure in the literature of African colonialism.

Allan Quatermain’s Wife

Ripped from the pages of the March 1936 issue of Secret Agent ‘X’ magazine, here is The Fear Merchants, a thrilling pulp novel! Includes the great original magazine art. Flame demons swept across the city. And in their scorching wake came a new horror. The firemen fighting the vast inferno suddenly toppled from their ladders, their shrieks piercing the blazing roar. For when the firefighters struck the pavement they were distorted, bloated husks…
Secret Agent ‘X’ was at that fire. But his manhunt was blocked by a barrier of the bloated dead.

Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy

A superb collection, a splendid and much needed book. Anderson has cleared away the dross and shown us the golden roots of fantasy before it became a genre. Michael Moorcock, author of The Eternal ChampionMany of today’s top names in fantasy acknowledge J.R.R. Tolkien as the author whose work inspired them to create their own epics. But which writers influenced Tolkien himself? In a collection destined to become a classic in its own right, internationally recognized Tolkien expert Douglas A. Anderson, editor of The Annotated Hobbit, has gathered the fiction of the many gifted authors who sparked Tolkien s imagination. Included are Andrew Lang s romantic swashbuckler The Story of Sigurd, which features magic rings and a ferocious dragon; an excerpt from E. A. Wyke Smith s The Marvelous Land of Snergs, about creatures who were precursors to Tolkien s hobbits; and a never before published gem by David Lindsay, author of A Voyage to Arcturus, a novel that Tolkien praised highly both as a thriller and as a work of philosophy, religion, and morality. In stories packed with magical journeys, conflicted heroes, and terrible beasts, this extraordinary volume is one that no fan of fantasy or Tolkien should be without. These tales just might inspire a new generation of creative writers.

Related Authors

Leave a Comment