Rider Haggard: 512 books

The writer of this romance has been encouraged to his task by a purpose somewhat beyond that of setting out a wild tale of savage life. When he was yet a lad,—now some seventeen years ago,—fortune took him to South Africa. There he was thrown in with men who, for thirty or forty years, had been...

Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a century, spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators. This is the second novel featuring the beautiful but deadly Zulu woman, Mameena: the child of storm.

Although in my old age I, Allan Quatermain, have taken to writing—after a fashion—never yet have I set down a single word of the tale of my first love and of the adventures that are grouped around her beautiful and tragic history. I suppose this is because it has always seemed to me too holy and...

JOHN A UNE AVENTURE La journée avait été très chaude, même pour le Transvaal, où l'on sait ce que peut être la chaleur jusqu'en automne, lorsque, l'été fini, les orages ne reviennent plus que tous les huit ou quinze jours. Les lis bleus eux-mêmes inclinaient leurs fleurs en forme de trompette,...

* Book : Marie (Allan Quatermain .11) * Biography * Bibliography The plot concerns Quatermain as a young man and involves his first marriage, to the Boer farm girl, Marie Marais. Their romance is opposed by Marie's anti-English father, and her villainous cousin Hernan Pereira, who desires Marie....

* Book : The Way of the Spirit * Biography * Bibliography “The Way of the Spirit” is a novel centring on sexuality and its renunciation, but with a voyage both spatial and spiritual and an isolated community in Egypt that approximates a lost race.

* Book : Mr. Meeson's Will * Biography * Bibliography 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 order to make a fresh start she boards a steamer...

De même que de petites causes ont parfois de grands effets, de même de vastes pensées surgissent de petites choses. Le soir où s’ouvre ce récit, cette observation était confirmée par les réflexions d’un homme à la physionomie militaire qui, appuyé contre une porte, considérait un champ...

* Book : Allan and the Holy Flower (Allan Quatermain .9) * Biography * Bibliography Brother John, who has been living in Africa for many years, gives Allan Quatermain the largest orchid he has ever seen. Later, in England, he has a meeting with Mr. Somers, an orchid collector who is prepaired...

* Book : The Ghost Kings * Biography * Bibliography The author wrote, "The Zulus have a strange story of a white girl who in Dingaan's day was supposed to 'hold the spirit' of some legendary goddess of theirs who is also white. This girl, they say, was very beautiful and brave, and had...

* Book : Beatrice * Biography * Bibliography An emotional account of the love affair between Beatrice Granger, an unmarried schoolteacher, and Geoffrey Bingham, an unhappily married barrister who lives in London. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.

* Book : Joan Haste * Biography * Bibliography The author of such swashbuckling adventures as "She" and "King Solomon's Mines" turns to domestic drama in this romance. Joan is a shop girl of illegitimate birth--and a single mother besides. Torn from the love of country-dwelling...

* Book : Les Mines du roi Salomon * Biographie * Bibliographie Dans les années 1880, trois Anglais s'aventurent dans des contrées inconnues de l'Afrique du Sud, à la recherche de Neville Curtis, parti en quête des fameuses mines de diamants du roi Salomon. Conduit par Allan Quatermain,...