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Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. The main hero of The Yellow God 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 heard of a mysterious kingdom ruled by the priestess and he plans to help himself to the gold found there.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
The Mahatma and the Hare is the story of the selfcalled mahatma - a spiritual man who is able, when asleep, to view "The Great White Road" on which the souls of those recently departed enter heaven - encounters the hare of the title after that animal's death. Barbara Who Came Back is the story of Septimus Walrond, who was returning from a professional visit to a distant cottage of his remote and straggling parish upon the coast of East Anglia. His errand had been sad, to baptise the dying infant...
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
The novel tells the inspiring story of a beautiful English maiden named Margaret, who faces hardship during the opening phases of the Spanish Inquisition in the late 1400's. As Margaret and her family struggle to live in peace, they soon find themselves in the midst of a series of perilous adventures. The drama that unfolds clearly displays the uncommon courage of ordinary people who chose to stand against the tyrants of their age.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
This novel is set in the climactic months before the opening of the Third Crusade, called the Kings' Crusade. The Brethren is a classic tale of love and chivalry, unfolding amidst the touching story of two English knights who are in love with the same maiden. The devotion of these men is tested when their beloved is carried away against her will to Palestine and eventually to the court of the famous Muslim leader, Saladin.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
A gripping novel which takes us and the hero, adventurer Allan Quatermain, back in time. It relates several exciting adventures like a lion hunt, wrestling with a crocodile, and a large-scale battle between various armies.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
In Black Heart And White Heart, Henry Rider Haggard mounts once more those trusty steeds of his, the nobility of the savage and the rascality of the civilized white. He rides, too, with all his old dexterity, and the story concerning Zulus, witches, battles, sacrifices, and traitors.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Beatrice follows the story of the Welsh title character Beatrice Granger, a teacher, and the affair that takes place with an unhappily married man in the form of barrister Geoffrey Bingham. Trouble awaits, in the form of Bingham's wife Honoria (who's only interested in money and social climbing), Owen Davies (one of the richest men in Wales, who is morbidly obsessed with marrying Beatrice), and Elizabeth (Beatrice's older sister, who will do just about anything to marry Davies herself).
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Colonel Quaritch is an impoverished nobleman, who is looking for the family jewels of his bride — the "treasure de la Moley". He moves to the house of his late aunt in the village of Honhem and soon becomes involved in an adventure.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
The novel H. Rider Haggard's celebrated Allan Quatermain series, this book tells more stories of Quartermain's time in South Africa - presenting his observations about two dueling witch doctors, his father's death, and, eventually, the fate of his wife, Stella.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
This novel is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain saga. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic taduki drug, as he did in previous novels, and he finds himself reliving as Wi, an civilized man living in the barbaric ice age as part of a clan of cavemen.The novel has been noted as a treatment of the topics of eugenics and evolution in literature and culture.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic-fantasy novel by the popular Victorian author Henry Rider Haggard, published in 1905, as a sequel to his far more popular and well known novel, She.Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey once again embark on a quest to find the mysterious woman known as Ayesha. Knowing that She is no longer in Africa, they go east, eventually reaching a lamasery in the mountains of Tibet.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Olaf, a Norseman in the eighth century A.D., flees his homeland after challenging the Norse god Odin's right to a human sacrifice, travels to Constantinople to protect the Empress Irene Augusta from her son Constantine the Fifth and other enemies of the Eastern Roman Empire. From Byzantinum, to the pyramid tombs of Upper Egypt, Olaf becomes a traveling Christian who must reject the adulterous advances of Irene. Blinded as punishment for rejecting the Empress, Olaf's adventures are woven within...
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
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. This is an extraordinarily beautiful Indian princess and a white Englishman fall in love but suffer deeply because of their feelings.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Jess Croft lives with sister Bessie and old Silas, a farmer raising ostriches on the great Transvaal veldt. He is a reserved and aloof, with a quietness about her brought on by the misfortunes of her young childhood, when she and Bessie arrived motherless from England to South Africa. Then an Englishman, Captain John Niel, arrives to try his hand at the farming life. To his eyes, Bessie is lively and lovely of face and figure - yet Jess is mystery, with a bright and roving mind and splendid,...
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
This novel takes place in ancient Egypt. The hero, prince Rames, goes through many challenges and daring encounters to win his way through to the woman he loved with all his heart and the recognition that was rightfully his. Neter-Tua, The Morning Star, daughter of the Pharaoh, daughter of the ages, high priestess of Amen, beautiful and glorious as no woman before her, sent down by the god.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Haggard's faith-fortifying novel is a delicious blend of stirring events, captivating characters, and historical detail. The story is about the destruction of Jerusalem, about first-century life as they follow the hardships and trials of Miriam, a young believer; and Marcus, the Roman officer who wishes to marry her.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
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. 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 Henry Rider Haggard.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
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. Queen of the Dawn is about the overthrow of the Hyksos and reinstatement of the rightful pharaonic line.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |