Dead Dodo Presents Rider Haggard: 30 books

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The Last Boer War’   The Last Boer War is a 1899 non-fiction book by H. Rider Haggard about the Boer War of 1881. It was originally written in 1882 but not published until years later.   Haggard wrote...

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...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Finished.’   A curious effect of Haggard's successful emulation of the terse, pithy style of saga prose is that the idiom of this novel actually seems rather less dated in the early 21st century than Haggard's other...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Long Odds’   The subjects and historical periods that British action-adventure writer H. Rider Haggard tackled in his vast body of work ranged considerably, but one element remains a constant thread that unites...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Eric Brighteyes.’   A curious effect of Haggard's successful emulation of the terse, pithy style of saga prose is that the idiom of this novel actually seems rather less dated in the early 21st century than Haggard's...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Montezuma's Daughter.’   This remarkable novel by adventure writer H. Rider Haggard can be enjoyed on many levels. As a tale of adventure, it takes the reader through 16th-century England, Spain, and Mexico at the...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek’.   Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek is an 1899 novel by H. Rider Haggard set in South Africa during the Boer Trek of 1836.   The novel was adapted into a 1922 South...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Allan Quatermain’   This sequel to King Solomon's Mines is based on Rider Haggard's own experiences in Africa. During their search for a white race reputed to live near Mount Kenya, Allan Quatermain and his companions...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Regeneration’   In Regeneration, Haggard talks of the work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain. Haggard sums up the Salvation Army by saying, "the religious Organization founded by this man and his wife...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The Wizard’.   "The Wizard," H. Rider Haggard's 21st novel out of an eventual 58, was initially released as a serial in a publication called "The African Review" and then in its complete form...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Red Eve’.   Red Eve is a novel by H Rider Haggard set in the reign of Edward III.   H. Rider Haggard practically invented the "journey-to-a-lost-civilization" adventure genre, which captured...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Queen Sheba's Ring.’   The discovery of a ring, given to the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon himself, launches this tale of romance and adventure from master storyteller H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Love Eternal’.   Although English author H. Rider Haggard is popularly known today as "the father of the lost race novel," such adventure tales of vanished civilizations were scarcely his sole concern....

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Allan Quatermain’   The tale of Allan Quatermain's second wife, Stella, is also a classic fantasy African adventure, complete with magic and ghosts, plus Haggard's trademark gripping narrative style.   Sir...