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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 |
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Allan and the Ice-Gods 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...
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
A sequel to the famous novel King Solomon's Mines is based on author's own experience in the African continent. Quatermain has lost his only son and longs to get back into the wilderness. Having persuaded Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good, and the Zulu chief Umbopa to accompany him, they set out from the coast of east Africa, this time in search of a white race reputed to live north of Mount Kenya. They survive fierce encounters with Masai warriors, undergo a terrifying subterranean journey,...
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
“Kuningas Saalomoni kaevandustest” tuntud Allan Quatermain jutustab selles raamatus oma sõpradele loo, kuidas ta seikles Aafrikas müütilist koletist otsides ja selle preestritega võideldes, milles teda aitas kuulus kohalik nõid Zikali.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Контркультура |
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 |
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. The Allan's Wife novel 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Beatrice follows the story of the Welsh title character Beatrice Granger, a teacher, and the affair that takes place with an unhappily married man, 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...
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
The last novel written by Haggard; finished just before his death and published posthumously.
Ramose is the offspring of an Egyptian Pharaoh and a Greek woman. Brought up in a life of luxury he is catapulted into a life of adventure which leads him to the fall of Babylon at the hand of the Persian Empire under Cyrus.
| 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. Belshazzar is a last novel written by Haggard, finished just before his death and published posthumously. Ramose is the offspring of an Egyptian Pharaoh and a Greek woman. Brought up in a life of luxury he is catapulted into a life of adventure which leads him to the fall of Babylon at the hand of the Persian Empire under Cyrus. Smith and the Pharaohs is a...
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
An adventurous trader, hearing from some natives in the territory that lies at the back of Quilimane, the legend of a great treasure buried in or about the sixteenth century by a party of Portuguese who were afterwards massacred, as a last resource attempted its discovery by the help of a mesmerist. According to this history the child who was used as a subject in the experiment, when in a state of trance, detailed the adventures and death of the unhappy Portuguese men and women, two of whom...
| 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. 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,...
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза 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 |
Cetywayo and His White Neighbours is a 1882 nonfiction book by Henry Rider Haggard. It was based on his time working in South Africa.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.
| 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. Cetywayo and His White Neighbours is a 1882 non-fiction book by Henry Rider Haggard. It is based on his time working in South Africa.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза 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. Child of Storm is a sequel to Haggard's novel Marie, where Allan Ouatermain helps his Zulu friend Saduko in a crazy battle to win one hundred heads of cattle for the dowry of his love Mameena. However, the beautiful and mysterious Mameena, known as the "Child of Storm," seduces Allan and tries to engage him in marriage.
| Автор | Henry Haggard |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |