H Rider: 383 books

The Occult Fiction Collection assembles 29 of the greatest occult & supernatural stories ever written. Featuring: THE ABBOT’S GHOST, OR MAURICE TREBERNE’S TEMPTATION, by Louisa May Alcott THE GHOST, by Arnold Bennett THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST’S BARGAIN, by Charles Dickens THE...

This and the successor volumes in this series provides a historical view of how and what several important novelists were writing about these subjects in the past by making a number of these novels available inexpensively in a single place.  A modern reader may consider them rather tame if they...

A runaway bestseller on its publication in 1887, H. Rider Haggard’s She is a Victorian thrill ride of a novel, featuring a lost African kingdom ruled by a mysterious, implacable queen; ferocious wildlife and yawning abysses; and an eerie love story that spans two thousand years. She has bewitched...

«Agora que este livro está impresso, e em vésperas de correr o mundo largo, começa a pesar fortemente sobre mim a desconfiança de que, para ele ser aceitável, muito lhe falta como Estilo e como História. Enquanto à História, realmente, não pretendi, nem tentei, meter nestas páginas tudo...

She , subtitled A History of Adventure, is a classic by Henry Rider Haggard, first serialized in The Graphic magazine from October 16 to January 17. She is one of the classics of imaginative literature, and as of 1965 with over 83 million copies sold in 44 different languages, one of the best-selling...

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved...

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Late 14th C. Hubert of Hastings, a subject of Richard II of England (1367 – 1400), is shipwrecked upon a foreign shore. He discovers he is in a land the natives call TtahuatinSuyu, pronounced Tavantinsuyu, meaning “The Four Corners of the World.” Early 20th C. An eccentric collector,...

e-artnow presents to you the most incredible Lost World theories in fiction form, written by the greatest masters of science fiction genre: Abraham Merritt: The Moon Pool The Metal Monster The People of the Pit Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth Twenty...

“I do not suppose that anyone who knows the name of Allan Quatermain would be likely to associate it with flowers, and especially with orchids. Yet as it happens it was once my lot to take part in an orchid hunt of so remarkable a character that I think its details should not be lost. At least I...

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines tells of a group of adventurers journeying into unexplored Africa in order to find the missing brother of one of the party. The book became an immediate bestseller after publication in 1885. At the time large parts of Africa remained unexplored by Europeans and the book captured the imagination of the public.

H. Rider Haggard was an English author known for adventure novels set in exotic locations.  Haggard is considered to be one of the first writers of the Lost World genre.  Haggard's novel She: A History of Adventure is a first-person narrative of 2 men in a lost kingdom.

A quest for a rare orchid may not seem like the most exciting premise for an action-adventure tale, but in Allan and the Holy Flower, master of the genre H. Rider Haggard works his unique magic once again. Filled with the trademark touches that have made gentleman explorer Allan Quatermain a fan favorite for nearly a century, this novel is a must-read for thrill-seeking readers.

An African adventure story from the H Rider Haggard, author of King Solomon's Mines. From that moment the sermon improved by degrees, till at length it reached a really high level of excellence. Ceasing from rhetoric, the speaker began to tell of his own experience and sufferings in the Cause...