H. Rider Haggard

The Wanderer's Necklace By H. Rider Haggard

Only a storyteller as preternaturally gifted as action-adventure master H. Rider Haggard could turn a story about a legal battle over publishing rights into a gripping page-turner. Mr. Meeson's Will offers a fascinating glimpse into the legal rights of authors in the nineteenth century-and a swashbuckling maritime misadventure that comes with a plethora of unpredictable consequences.

Ayesha, the Return of She By H. Rider Haggard

Book Excerpt: ched him I could catch the tones of his full, sonorous voice, and see his waving, outstretched arms. In his right hand he held the looped sceptre which, by his express wish I send to you with the drawings. I could see the flash of the jewels strung upon the wires, and in the great stillness, hear the tinkling of its golden bells." Presently, too, I seemed to become aware of another presence, and now you will understand why I desire and must ask that my identity should be suppressed. Naturally enough I do not wish to be mixed up with a superstitious tale which is, on the face of it, impossible and absurd. Yet under all the circumstances I think it right to tell you that I saw, or thought I saw, something gather in the shadow of the central dolmen, or emerge from its rude chamber--I know not which for certain--something bright and glorious which gradually took the form of a woman upon whose forehead burned a star-like fire." At any rate the vision or reflection, or whatever it was, startled me soRead More

En el pr logo del libro, el an nimo "Editor" del libro recibe un paquete. Al abrirla, encuentra una carta de Horace Holly, con un manuscrito adjunto que contiene una segunda memoria sobre Ella. Hay tambi n una segunda carta, del doctor de Holly, a quien Holly ha confiado su letra y manuscrito, junto con una caja de madera, que contiene un sistrum antiguo . El doctor cuenta c mo, al asistir a Holly en sus ltimas horas, lleg a la casa para encontrar que Holly se hab a levantado de su lecho de muerte y se dirigi a un anillo local de antiguas piedras erguidas.

Doctor Therne is a 1898 science fiction novel about a plague that sweeps England. It tells the story of "James Therne", a promising young doctor who suffers some early tragedies. He is unjustly accused in a malpractice case, loses all his patients even though he is acquitted, and later suffers the loss of his young wife. Though a staunch believer in vaccination, he runs for Parliament on an anti-vaccination platform, selling out his beliefs and morals for political gain and filthy lucre.

She And Allan By H. Rider Haggard By H. Rider HaggardH. Rider Haggard's classic tale of fantasy and adventure set in a lost world ruled by a two-thousand-year-old queenOn the occasion of his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the locked iron box that is his birthright and finds an ancient potsherd. Following clues engraved on the relic, Vincey and the man who raised him, Cambridge professor Horace Holly, embark on a remarkable adventure that will take them from Victorian England to an uncharted region in East Africa. Surviving shipwreck, disease, and hostile natives, they discover a lost civilization no European has ever encountered-or lived to describe. They have entered the realm of the cruel and beautiful Ayesha, known to those who worship her as "She-who-must-be-obeyed." For two thousand years, the white queen has been waiting-for what, Vincey and Holly are about to find out. One of the bestselling novels of all time, She has held readers in its thrall for more than a century. Alongside Haggard's other classic, King Solomon's Mines, it established the conventions of the lost world fantasy genre, and has inspired some of our greatest thinkers and writers, from Sigmund Freud to J. R. R. Tolkien to Margaret Atwood.