Rider Haggard: 512 books

“There is generally one weak point about all artful schemes to keep other people out of their rights...” Domestic melodrama—with a few hints of the psychic world—carries this first novel by the creator of that extraordinary gentleman, Allan Quatermain. Published in 1884, it was adapted for the silver screen in 1917.

Agora que este livro está impresso, e em vesperas de correr o mundo largo, começa a pesar fortemente sobre mim a desconfiança de que, para elle ser aceitavel, muito lhe falta como Estylo e como Historia. Emquanto á Historia, realmente, não pretendi, nem tentei, metter n’estas paginas tudo o que...

The autumn afternoon was fading into evening. It had been cloudy weather, but the clouds had softened and broken up. Now they were lost in slowly darkening blue. The sea was perfectly and utterly still. It seemed to sleep, but in its sleep it still waxed with the rising tide. The eye could not mark its...

There is a man who has lost his wife and daughter. He is the sole survivor in the accident and feels great guilt. And in this guilt, he begins to drink more and more each day. Then one day as the man was contemplating suicide, a stranger named Joren comes along and tells him not to worry. He tells...

Set in the Ptolemaic era the story revolves around the survival of a dynastic bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. Harmachis, the last living descendent of this bloodline, is charged by the Priesthood with the overthrow of Cleopatra, the ejection of the Romans, and the restoration of Egypt to it's golden age.

This is the sequel to the better known, and more popular "She". There's more action and adventure than it's predecessor, and the exciting scenes are more vividly described. Additionally, there's little of the Victorian attitudes to race and religion found in "She" that - to modern readers - sits uncomfortably.

An African domestic drama set in Pretoria at the time of the Boer War.

Afrique, Transvall. Une région où il ne fait pas bon être anglais ou noir... Le héros débarque dans une ferme tenue par un vieil anglais, oncle de deux jeunes femmes. Loup dans la bergerie, le jeune officier s'éprend des deux jeunes femmes. Malheureusement pour lui, l'une d'elle est convoitée...

Queen of the Dawn is an ancient Egyptian fantasy. The beginning of the story is very rapidly developing, from the very beginning the pharaon dies. And the daughter of Pharaoh is forced to hide. She meets and falls in love with the usurper’s disguised son. The end is full of adventures and bright battles.

As Minas de Salomão tem um lugar peculiar na literatura porque a tradução de Eça de Queiroz para a língua portuguesa ficou mais famosa do que o original em inglês. Trata-se de uma clássica história de aventuras do século XIX, quando a África era um mundo distante e selvagem, com os mistérios...

In the turbulent reign of King Henry VII, Peter Brome finds himself with a soldier's blood on his hands -- blood the Spanish ambassador's men demand be repaid. Poor and fatherless, Peter delivered the killing blow in self-defence -- and because of his helpless love for Margaret -- dark-eyed daughter...

The book is full of unforeseen incidents. At the heart of the story is a guy who is much more honest and bolder than he seems. And of course there is love. Love leads this story, love strengthens it, and also corrupts it in a cunning way. This is a power struggle, a story about kindness, true friendship, sacrifice, conspiracy, and so on.

* Book : Cetywayo and his White Neighbours * Biography * Bibliography This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though...