Rider Haggard: 512 books

Do I know why Tom Donahue is called “Lucky Tom”? Yes, I do; and that is more than one in ten of those who call him so can say. I have knocked about a deal in my time, and seen some strange sights, but none stranger than the way in which Tom gained that sobriquet, and his fortune with it. For I was...

The tale of a girl named Beatrice, who, seeking love, finds not only romance, but action, adventure, and cliff-hangers as well. By the creator of Allan Quartermain.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: A story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. Excerpt: The Zulu warrior at the time of Rorke's Drift was not a professional solider but was...

The Lady of Blossholme is an adventure story set in England during the reign of Henry VIII.

Beatrice, the young woman, falls in love with a married man, and a love triangle is born. Hard had been Beatrice's hours since that grey morning of separation. She must bear all the inner wretchedness of her lot; she must conceal her grief, must suffer the slings and arrows of Elizabeth's...

Allan Quatermain's first adventure with Lord Ragnall.

A história de Benita que, juntamente com os seus companheiros de viagem, consegue o que vários tinham já tentado sem qualquer sucesso - abrir uma brecha nas defesas e superstições da tribo dos makalangas e aceder à fortaleza sagrada de Bambatze. É neste...

Set in the heart of Central America, the adventure novel accounts an enthralling tale marked by zealous adventure, discovery of a lost civilization, and unconditional love. Published in 1895, Heart of the World presents a fusion of suspense, foreshadowing, legend, unforeseen twists, and endearing...

Picking up where Homer left off, this 1890 collaboration tells the story of Odysseus after the death of his wife, Penelope.  The widowed Odysseus is visited by Helen of Troy, and sent on a journey that brings him to Egypt and Queen Meriamun, who desires him for herself.

Adventurer Allan Quatermain helps his Zulu friend Saduko win 100 cattle to buy his true love Mameena ("Child of Storm"). The mysterious Mameena, however, has other ideas-she wants to marry Allan Quatermain. (Goodreads)

There are, roughly, two ways of writing an historical romance - the first to choose some notable and leading characters of the time to be treated, and by the help of history attempt to picture them as they were; the other, to make a study of that time and history with the country in which it was enacted, and from it to deduce the necessary characters...

A short story in the Alan Quatermain series, where Harry joins his famous adventurer father on a journey of thrils and danger. The oxen, which were as usual tied to the disselboom of the Scotch cart, were very restless—they kept snuffling and blowing, and rising up and lying down again,...