James Therne is not my real name, for why should I publish it to the world? A year or two ago it was famous-or infamous-enough, but in that time many things have happened. There has been a war, a continental revolution, two scandals o...

The author described this book as 'an attempt to recreate the life of the ancient Phoenician Zimbabwe, whose ruins still stand in Rhodesia, and, with the addition of the necessary love story, to suggest circumstances such as might hav...

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"Eric Brighteyes" is a romance founded on the Icelandic Sagas. "What is a saga?" "Is it a fable or a true story?" The answer is not altogether simple. For such sagas as those of Burnt Njal and Grettir the Strong partake both of truth ...

An 1891 romance based on Icelandic sagas, Henry Rider Haggard's Eric Brighteyes will stir the blood of even the most jaded of modern audiences.

It was a spring afternoon in the sixth year of the reign of King Henry VII. of England. There had been a great show in London, for that day his Grace opened the newly convened Parliament, and announced to his faithful people-who recei...

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Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, the eighth of ten children, on 22nd June 1856. His early years were ones of disappointment to his family, his education was good but his application wasn't. In 1875 his Father sent...

The circumstances under which the following pages come to be printed are somewhat curious and worthy of record. Within the last few years a certain English gentleman, whom we will call Jones, because it was not his name, chanced to be...

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The day had been very hot even for the Transvaal, where the days still know how to be hot in the autumn, although the neck of the summer is broken-especially when the thunderstorms hold off for a week or two, as they do occasionally. ...

Alone and desolate, within hearing of the thunder of the waters of the North Sea, but not upon them, stand the ruins of Ramborough Abbey. Once there was a city at their feet, now the city has gone; nothing is left of its greatness sav...

King Solomon's Mines is a classic adventure novel by the British author Sir Henry Rider Haggard, first published in 1885. The book is one of the first works of the 'Lost World' literary genre, which was highly popular during the late ...

When the adventurer Allan Quatermain is asked by Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good to help them find Sir Henry's missing brother, who was last seen trekking into the remote African interior in search of the fabled King Solomon's Mines...

Adventurer Allan Quatermain leads an expedition into the heart of Africa in search both of lost explorers and of the legendary treasure of the mythical King Solomon. Death and danger are constant companions for Quatermain's party in H...

This is a dramatic new full-cast BBC Radio 4 adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's Victorian novel in which Allan Quartermain leads a group of adventurers into the uncharted realms of Africa.

More than thirty years ago two atoms of the eternal Energy sped forth from the heart of it which we call God, and incarnated themselves in the human shapes that were destined to hold them for a while, as vases hold perfumes, or goblet...

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Maiwa is a woman who is set on revenge, And what Maiwa wants, Maiwa gets!

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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.

Set in a district of the Cape Colony, a British settlement in South Africa, young Allan Quatermain and Marie Marias meet when they share the same tutor. Though they quickly befriend each other, their friendship is frowned upon by Mari...

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The adventures of a 16th century Englishman who travels to the New World and falls in love with Montezuma's daughter, Aztec Princess of the Otomie.

'I think,' I said in a low voice so that none might overhear, 'that his heart is as black as his brow; that he has grown wicked with jealousy and hate and will do you evil.' 'Can a man grow wicked, Ana? Is he not as he was born till t...

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