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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 Lady of Blossholme is a tale of adventure set in the time of King Henry VIII. This was the period when King Henry was rebelling against Pope Clement VII, and when many Englishmen in the north, and many clergymen, were rebelling against Henry, in the so-called Pilgrimage of Grace. To raise needed funds for this rebellion against the king, the Spanish abbot...
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
In Red Eve Henry Raider Haggard sets a suspenseful love story against some of the most dramatic events in history, including the devastation wrought by the Black Plague. Will dashing protagonist Hugh de Cressi survive long enough to live happily ever after with his true love?
| 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 mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Stella Fregelius is a story of the overlapping fates of three people in a northern coastal region of England. The story follows Morris Monk, an aspiring inventor, as he gets engaged to his cousin, Mary Porson, and soon complicates things by falling in love with the daughter of the new church rector, Stella Fregelius. And Mr. Meeson's Will is the story of Mr....
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Роман "Она: история приключения" был написан Хаггардом на волне успеха "Копий царя Соломона". В основу романа легли воспоминания автора о своих путешествиях по Африке и знания древних местных легенд. Трое мужчин из Кембриджа терпят кораблекрушение, страдают от лихорадки и находятся под постоянной угрозой быть съеденными людоедами, и всё это - лишь ради того, чтобы найти Ее. "Она" - загадочная Белая Королева, вечно молодая и прекрасная повелительница огня, Та-Которой-Должны-Подчиняться, -...
| 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 mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. The Last Boer War is an 1899 non-fiction book by Haggard about the Boer War of 1881. Jess is a story of Jess Croft who 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...
| 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 mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. When the World Shook is a story of Arbuthnot who has a sudden urge to travel to the Pacific islands after his wife's death. He gets on a yacht with two friends, Bickley, a doctor, Bastin, a minister, and Arbuthnot's dog, Tommy. The craft is then taken by a cyclone after all the crew abandons ship. When the three adventurers awaken, they find themselves...
| 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 mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Montezuma's Daughter is a story of Thomas Wingfleld, an Englishman whose adventures include having his mother murdered, a brush with the Spanish Inquisition, shipwreck, and slavery as he searches for the Spanish villian who killed his mother. Thomas's revenge quest takes him to Mexico as he sides with the Aztecs.
| 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 mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. This volume contains two stories of Allan Quotermain's series. In Heu-Heu, or the Monster Allan is confronted with the legend of the Heu-Heu, a monster who eats humans, while sheltering from a thunderstorm in the Drakensberg mountains. In The Treasure of the Lake Allan Quatermain finds a village in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with...
| 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 mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. This volume contains two stories of Allan Quotermain's series. The Ivory Child is a story of evil spirit, which Allan have to destroy before it kills every one of the White Kendah People. The Ancient Allan is a gripping novel which takes us and adventurer Allan Ouatermain, back in time. It relates to several exciting adventures like a lion hunt, wrestling with a...
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Дочь Монтесумы. Книга для чтения на английском языке. Захватывающая история любви и мести разворачивается на фоне исторических событий бурного XVI века. Испанская дворянка Луиса де Гарсия, вышедшая замуж за англичанина, погибает от руки своего брата, Хуана де Гарсия, успев предсказать, что тот будет убит ее сыном Томасом. Томас дает клятву отомстить за гибель матери, оставляет свою невесту Лили и отправляется в Испанию. После ряда приключений Томас узнает, что его враг пытается скрыться в Новом...
| 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 novel narrates the events of the Biblical Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of a scribe named Ana.
| 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 largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. Smith and the Pharaohs, the title tale of Collected Tales I concerns a budding Egyptologist who is accidentally locked up one night in the Cairo Museum. Falling asleep, he dreams that he is put on trial by the ghosts of Egypt's pharaohs and queens.
| 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 largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. Collected Tales II from master storyteller includes two stories: Little Flower and Only a Dream, a ghost story about the strange experience of a widower about to remarry, who is visited on the eve of his wedding by the ghastly apparition of his dead first...
| 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 mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. In Mary of Marion Isle we make the acquaintance of Andrew West, a young doctor who enters into a loveless marriage with Clara, his first cousin. With Clara pushing him unwillingly into politics, he eventually becomes appointed the governor-general of the U.K. colony of Oceania. When the ship that Andrew and Clara are on strikes an iceberg in the south Indian...
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Rachel Dove's and Richard Darrien's lives first intersect in Africa when the brave man saves a minister's daughter, from a flash flood. Years pass before they meet again: This time Rachel needs help escaping a Zulu tribe that would have her as their goddess and evading another man who wants her for his own.
| Автор | Генри Райдер Хаггард, Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Queen of the Dawn is set in Egypt one thousand eight hundred years before the time of Christ in the time of the Shepherd King Apepi. It opens at an almost breakneck pace, with Pharaoh deposed and killed, his wife and child in hiding, and the goddesses stirring. A secret religious order raises the Pharaoh's daughter, and she meets and falls in love with the...
| 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 mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic-fantasy novel by 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...
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
A Dutch girl raised in South Africa among the Kaffirs. Lonely, she gazes from shore over the waves of a storm-tossed sea, and dreams of a brother entering her life... and soon finds herself face-to-face with a shipwrecked waif cast ashore by the storm.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |