Henry Rider Haggard: 129 books

For five long but not unhappy years, seated or journeying side by side, we have striven as Royal Commissioners to find a means whereby our coasts may be protected from “the outrageous flowing surges of the sea” (I quote the jurists of centuries ago), the idle swamps turned to fertility and the barren hills clothed with forest; also, with small success, how “foreshore” may be best defined!

MY DEAR CURZON, More than thirty years ago you tried to protect me, then a stranger to you, from one of the falsest and most malignant accusations ever made against a writer.

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invitation, he took a chair, and sat down in such a position that he could see Miss Smithers without being seen of his uncle.   "I was saying, Miss Smithers, or rather, I was going to say," went on the elder Meeson, "that, in short, I do not in the least understand what you can mean. You will remember that you were paid a sum of fifty pounds for the copyright of 'Jemima's Vow.'"  ...

You have graciously conveyed to me the intelligence that during the weary weeks spent far from his home— in alternate hope and fear, in suffering and mortal trial— a Prince whose memory all men must reverence, the Emperor Frederick, found pleasure in the reading of my stories: that “they interested and fascinated him.

* Book : Pearl-Maiden * Biography * Bibliography "I do not know; I only know this, that in that wall, as in others, a door will be found. Trouble not for the future, but leave it in the hand of Him Who shapes all futures. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof. So He said. Accept the...

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one lady whom she saw told her frankly, she was far too pretty for this walk of life. At length she did obtain a situation, however, a modest one enough, that of nursery governess to the children of the rector of Bradmouth, Mr. Biggen. This post she held for nine months, till Mr. Biggen, a kind-hearted and scholarly man, noting her beauty and intelligence, began to take more interest in her than pleased his wife—a state of affairs that resulted in Joan's abrupt dismissal on the day previous to the beginning of this history.  ...

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The more unpronounceable of the Aztec names are shortened in many instances out of consideration for the patience of the reader; thus 'Popocatapetl' becomes 'Popo, ' 'Huitzelcoatl' becomes 'Huitzel, ' &c. The prayer in Chapter xxvi. is freely rendered from Jourdanet's French translation of Fray Bernardino...

Do I know why Tom Donahue is called “Lucky Tom”? Yes, I do; and that is more than one in ten of those who call him so can say. I have knocked about a deal in my time, and seen some strange sights, but none stranger than the way in which Tom gained that sobriquet, and his fortune with it. For I was...

JOHN A UNE AVENTURE La journée avait été très chaude, même pour le Transvaal, où l'on sait ce que peut être la chaleur jusqu'en automne, lorsque, l'été fini, les orages ne reviennent plus que tous les huit ou quinze jours. Les lis bleus eux-mêmes inclinaient leurs fleurs en forme de trompette,...

* Book : Marie (Allan Quatermain .11) * Biography * Bibliography The plot concerns Quatermain as a young man and involves his first marriage, to the Boer farm girl, Marie Marais. Their romance is opposed by Marie's anti-English father, and her villainous cousin Hernan Pereira, who desires Marie....