Rider Haggard: 512 books

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Mr. Meeson's Will.’   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...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘When the World Shook.’   Out-of-print for many years, When the World Shook is a classic text, which tells of the terror of a ghost town. The streets were empty, and so were the buildings, this city could not have...

Ayesha Series is written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, who 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...

The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story’   There is a man who has lost his wife and daughter. He is the sole survivor in the accident and feels great guilt. And in this guilt, he begins to drink more and more each...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘She and Allan.’   "I believe it was the old Egyptians – a very wise people, probably indeed much wiser than we know for in the leisure of their ample centuries they had time to think out things – who declared...

H. Rider Haggard 's Greatest Works  is contained 13  works written by 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...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Benita, an African Romance.’   An adventurous trader, it is said, hearing the legend of a great treasure buried a party of Portuguese hundreds of years before, as a last resource attempted its discovery by the help...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Colonel Quaritch, V.C.’   This is not a typical adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adultery, murder and a buried treasure!   This is the tale...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The Ancient Allan.’   Sitting beside entrancing Lady Ragnall while the smoke of an ancient Egyptian herb grows thick around them, Allan Quatermain finds himself departing the world he know and entering into his...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘A Tale of Three Lions’   In this thrilling tale of danger and adventure, young Harry joins his father, the famous Alan Quatermain, on a hunt for lions deep in Africa.   Sir Henry Rider Haggard was...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Fair Margaret’   In the turbulent reign of King Henry VII, Peter Brome finds himself with a soldier's blood on his hands -- blood the Spanish ambassador's men demand be repaid. Poor and fatherless, Peter delivered...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain.’   Allan Quatermain, the hero of King Solomon's mines, tells the story of his first wife, Marie Marais, and the adventures that led to her tragic demise.   Sir...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The Brethren’   From the sea-wall on the coast of Essex, Rosamund looked out across the ocean eastwards. To right and left, but a little behind her, like guards attending the person of their sovereign, stood her...