Henry Rider Haggard: 129 books

* Book : The Way of the Spirit * Biography * Bibliography “The Way of the Spirit” is a novel centring on sexuality and its renunciation, but with a voyage both spatial and spiritual and an isolated community in Egypt that approximates a lost race.

* Book : Mr. Meeson's Will * Biography * Bibliography Mr. Meeson's Will is the story of mean Mr. Meeson, the greedy and wealthy owner of a publishing house. Augusta Smithers is a young writer who enters into an unfair contract with Meeson. In order to make a fresh start she boards a steamer...

De même que de petites causes ont parfois de grands effets, de même de vastes pensées surgissent de petites choses. Le soir où s’ouvre ce récit, cette observation était confirmée par les réflexions d’un homme à la physionomie militaire qui, appuyé contre une porte, considérait un champ...

* Book : Allan and the Holy Flower (Allan Quatermain .9) * Biography * Bibliography Brother John, who has been living in Africa for many years, gives Allan Quatermain the largest orchid he has ever seen. Later, in England, he has a meeting with Mr. Somers, an orchid collector who is prepaired...

* Book : The Ghost Kings * Biography * Bibliography The author wrote, "The Zulus have a strange story of a white girl who in Dingaan's day was supposed to 'hold the spirit' of some legendary goddess of theirs who is also white. This girl, they say, was very beautiful and brave, and had...

* Book : Beatrice * Biography * Bibliography An emotional account of the love affair between Beatrice Granger, an unmarried schoolteacher, and Geoffrey Bingham, an unhappily married barrister who lives in London. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.

* Book : Les Mines du roi Salomon * Biographie * Bibliographie Dans les années 1880, trois Anglais s'aventurent dans des contrées inconnues de l'Afrique du Sud, à la recherche de Neville Curtis, parti en quête des fameuses mines de diamants du roi Salomon. Conduit par Allan Quatermain,...

* Book : The Wanderer's Necklace * Biography * Bibliography 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 (Istanbul, Turkey) to protect the Empress Irene Augusta from her son Constantine...

* Book : Heart of the World * Biography * Bibliography An extraordinarily beautiful Indian princess and a white Englishman fall in love but suffer deeply because of their feelings. Excerpt from Heart of the World The circumstances under which the following pages come to be printed are...

* Book : Maiwa's Revenge (Allan Quatermain .12) * Biography * Bibliography The story involves Quartermain going on a hunting expedition, then taking part in an attack on a native kraal to rescue a captured English hunter, and avenge Maiwa, an African princess whose baby has been killed.

* Book : Jess * Biography * Bibliography Jess Croft lives with sister Bessie and old Silas, a farmer raising ostriches on the great Transvaal veldt. Jess 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...

* Book : The Wizard * Biography * Bibliography The novel begins on a Sunday afternoon in summer at a church in the Midland county called Busscombe. Reverend Thomas Owen had a preacher for the day called a “Deputation,” who was sent to arouse the indifferent to the duty of converting the...

* Book : Allan and the Ice Gods (Allan Quatermain .15) * Biography * Bibliography This novel is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain saga, and it comprises the fourth part of a loosely linked series begun with Allan and the Holy Flower. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic taduki...

* Book : The Ivory Child (Allan Quatermain .7) * Biography * Bibliography While Quartermain visits Lord Randall, two foreigners come asking for Macumazana -- that is, asking for Allan Quartermain by the name he used among the Africans. The two visitors are Harut and Marut, priests and doctors...