H Haggard: 393 books

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. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved...

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. The last novel written by Haggard; finished just before his death and published posthumously. (Goodreads)

An inspiration for the popular Indiana Jones series, Henry Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain is one of the most beloved character to emerge from the action-adventure fiction of the nineteenth century. This early short story focuses on Allan Quatermain's exploits as a big game hunter in Africa, a skill that would provide much of the explorer's income throughout his life.

Classic Rider Haggard with all the usual ingredients: lost city, adventuring hero, beautiful priestess, invading armies, love, betrayal, and self-sacrifice. Glorious fun.

Rider Haggard, just like his main character in this story, is not indifferent to Ancient Egypt. The events of the four stories take place in Africa. Here several acts overlap: extraordinary courage and an epic clash of different cultures. The main theme remains unchanged: the theme of love, which lasts until death.

Henry Rider Haggard was known as English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations. „Joan Haste” – a novel about a girl of extramarital origin with a single mother. Torn from the love of captain Henry Graves. Joan is experiencing exile in the London family of Dickensy and the pursuit of the pursuer of the Victorian era.

Never has Sir Rider Haggard touched a higher standard than in this mighty romance. Never has he given us a more convincing impression of verisimilitude, and never has his creative ingenuity been more fertile and more opulent. Nor has he, nor has any writer in our time, sounded a more dramatic diapason than in the telling of the over-throw of Pharaoh's host in the Red Sea.

This sequel to Haggard's classic adventure fantasy, She (1887) was published in 1905.  Convinced that Ayesha, "She Who Must Be Obeyed," did not die in Africa, Leo Vincey and Horace Holly track her to Tibet, where they find themselves plunged into a timeless conflict, fought throughout history by means of reincarnation.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. My empire is of the imagination, proclaims white queen Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed. She is a spiritual romance in which Haggard explores not only the imagined city of Kôr, last remnant of an ancient, collapsed civilization,...

Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. -wikipedia

Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. -wikipedia

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. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved...

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. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved...

A shipwreck. A treasure of hidden gold. A desperate search. Haggard—who viewed his contemporary, Robert Louis Stevenson, as inspiration and competition—pulls out the stops in this 1906 action-adventure tale of ghosts, spirit possession, a lost race, and a young woman searching Africa for her missing father.