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The World's Desire (Paperback)
H. Rider Haggard, Andrew Lang
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A bold and spirited reimagining of the myth of Odysseus, The
World's Desire begins with Odysseus utterly alone. His kingdom of
Ithaca is an empty, abandoned wasteland. His beloved wife Penelope
is dead and his patron goddess Athena has forsaken him. The famous
wanderer is without kin and without purpose on an island he no
longer knows. But then Aphrodite visits Odysseus and sends him on a
quest to find the world's desire, the face that launched a thousand
ships: the woman he once knew as Helen of Troy. Armed with his
legendary bow, Odysseus's final journey takes him to a court riven
by murderous factions, ruled by a queen who is haunted by dreams of
Odysseus's face. . .
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
I am going to tell the strangest story that I remember. It may seem
a queer thing to say, especially considering that there is no woman
in it -- except Foulata. Stop, though! there is Gagaoola, if she
was a woman, and not a fiend. But she was a hundred at least, and
therefore not marriageable, so I don't count her. At any rate, I
can safely say that there is not a _petticoat_ in the whole
history.
An Englishman goes to Africa to seek his fortune -- and finds more
than his share of excitement, winding up in a remote land, rescuing
a beautiful woman, and ultimately finding himself. One of Haggard's
very best adventure novels.
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Joan Haste (Paperback)
H. Rider Haggard
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard is best known for his adventure novels,
especially King Solomon's Mines and She. Born in England, he
emigrated to South Africa briefly, before returning to seek a legal
career. He eventually became one of the most popular British
authors of all time. Written in 1895, Joan Haste is a romance, but
has enough action to satisfy any of Haggard's fans.
This short story collection includes: "Smith and the Pharaohs,"
"Magepa the Buck," "The Blue Curtains," "Little Flower," "Only a
Dream," and "Barbara Who Came Back."
This book, although it can be read as a separate story, is the
third of the trilogy of which "Marie" and "Child of Storm" are the
first two parts. It narrates, through the mouth of Allan
Quatermain, the consummation of the vengeance of the wizard Zikali,
alias The Opener of Roads, or
"The-Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born," upon the royal Zulu
House of which Senzangacona was the founder and Cetewayo, our enemy
in the war of 1879, the last representative who ruled as a king.
Although, of course, much is added for the purposes of romance, the
main facts of history have been adhered to with some faithfulness.
Classic fantasy novel of love and reincarnation.
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Red Eve (Paperback)
H. Rider Haggard
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When Eve Clattering-known as Red Eve because she always dresses in
red--is betrothed to Sir Edmund Acour, Count of Noyon, it goes
against her will and her every instinct. Rumors of Sir Edmund's
treachery have reached her ears, and she suspects may be planning
to seize the throne of England. Hugh de Cressi, Eve's true love,
must rise above his station, help save the king . . . and win Red
Eve for his own!
This collection of short stories includes three which feature Allan
Quatermain, the hero of King Solomon's Mines and other classic
novels (Long Odds, Hunter Quatermain's Story, and A Tale of Three
Lions) as well as two bonus stories (The Mahatma and the Hare,
Black Heart and White Heart).
Part of the Wildside Fantasy Classics series. The famous ruins in
Zimbabwe suggested this story to Haggard, in which he makes this
lost city the Biblical Ophir, said to have fallen because of the
wickedness of its religion and people. As always, a rousing story
in Haggard's finest style.
Standing a while ago upon the flower-clad plain above Tiberius, by
the Lake of Galilee, the writer gazed at the double peaks of the
Hill of Hattin. Here, or so tradition says, Christ preached the
Sermon on the Mount - that perfect rule of gentleness and peace.
Here, too - and this is certain - after nearly twelve centuries had
gone by, Yusuf Salah-ed-din, whom we know as the Sultan Saladin,
crushed the Christian power in Palestine in perhaps the most
terrible battle which that land of blood has known. Thus the Mount
of the Beatitudes became the Mount of Massacre. Whilst musing on
these strangely-contrasted scenes enacted in one place there arose
in his mind a desire to weave, as best he might, a tale wherein any
who are drawn to the romance of that pregnant and mysterious epoch,
when men by thousands were glad to lay down their lives for visions
and spiritual hopes, could find a picture, however faint and
broken, of the long war between Cross and Crescent waged among the
Syrian plains and deserts. England and the East; of the fearful
lord of the Assassins whom the Franks called Old Man of the
Mountain, and his fortress city, Masyaf. Of the great-hearted, if
at times cruel Saladin and his fierce Saracens; of the rout at
Hattin itself, on whose rocky height the Holy Rood was set up as a
standard and captured, to be seen no more by Christian eyes; and of
the Iast surrender, whereby the Crusaders lost Jerusalem forever.
Of that desire this story is the fruit. - H. Rider Haggard.
If H. Rider Haggard - one of the greatest adventure writers of all
time - is remembered now, it is for his novels featuring Allan
Quatermain, a heroic adventurer whose exploits in Africa form the
most important sequence of Haggard's books. Quatermain's adventures
are chronicled in such novels as King Solomon's Mines, Allan
Quaterman, She, and 11 others. In When the World Shook, Haggard
takes his popular formula for Victorian adventure fiction into the
contemporary world, with this tale of three modern-day English
adventurers who find an ancient god (complete with beautiful
daughter) asleep beneath a South Seas volcano...Written late in his
life, When the World Shook is perhaps the most current of all of
Haggard's novels; it features many contemporary inventions, from
aeroplanes to cameras, as well as Haggard's trademark gripping
storytelling and likeable, sympathetic characters. His tales remain
powerfully in the memory... - The Encyclopedia of Fantasy.
The tale of Allan Quatermain's second wife, Stella, is also a
classic fantasy African adventure, complete with magic and ghosts,
plus Haggard's trademark gripping narrative style.
Allan and the Ice Gods is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain
saga, and it comprises the fourth part of a loosely linked series
begun with Allan and the Holy Flower, The Ivory Child, and The
Ancient Allan. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic taduki
drug, as he did in previous novels, and he gets to see a previous
incarnation?
Moon of Israel (1918) was one of the earliest Haggard books to be
filmed (in 1924, as a silent movie directed by Michael Curtiz). The
movie adaptation has been released both as Moon of Israel and The
Slave Queen. Interestingly, Paramount bought the original film and
suppressed it so it wouldn't complete with the release of DeMille's
original silent version of The Ten Commandments. As a book, it is
an exceptional retelling of the Biblical story of the Exodus. I?m
certain most modern readers will be familiar with the original
story. By selecting an unlikely viewpoint character?the scribe
Ana?Haggard provides a down-to-earth narrator for a story of
fantastic proportion. The novel was first serialized in The
Cornhill Magazine from January through October in 1918 and released
in book for in October 1918. Author and critic Jessica Amanda
Salmonson has called Moon of Israel ?a beautifully written Jewish
legend, ? and adds, ?Haggard was pro-Zionist advocating a Jewish
homeland in Palestine as early as 1915.
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Montezuma's Daughter (Paperback)
H. Rider Haggard; Selected by John Gregory Betancourt
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The strange adventures and escapes of Thomas Wingfield, half
English and half Spanish, in the years after Cortes's conquest of
Mexico.
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Mr. Meeson's Will (Paperback)
H. Rider Haggard; Introduction by John Gregory Betancourt
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If Haggard?one of the greatest adventure writers of all time?is
remembered now, it is for his novels featuring Allan Quatermain, a
heroic adventurer whose exploits in Africa form the most important
sequence of Haggard's books. Quatermain's adventures are chronicled
in such novels as King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quaterman, She, and
11 others.However, despite the importance of the Quaterman books,
many of Haggard's other novels are interesting in their own right.
Nada the Lily is the first of four books about the Zulus, all of
which are excellent. Eric Brighteyes is rich, fantasy-laden
Icelandic saga. The World's Desire (written with Andrew Lang) is a
fantasy about the characters in The Odyssey. And there are numerous
other titles (many of them reprinted by Wildside Press as part of
the Wildside Fantasy Classics series) which bring undeservingly
lost Haggard books back into print. Mr. Meeson's Will is just such
a book.Here we get a glimpse of what H. Rider Haggard must have
gone through as a starting author, as he slyly takes the reader
inside the British publishing industry, where greed and hack
writers (he calls them ?tame writers?) are prominent. One can
easily see how writers of the day could be ruined by publishers as
ruthless and unscrupulous as Mr. Meeson. Luckily Haggard could call
upon his years of legal training in search of the appropriate
remedy for his heroine's tragic plight!
Before the beginning of this story of the most remarkable episodes
in his life, Philip Hadden was engaged for several years in
transport-riding--carrying goods on ox waggons from Durban or
Maritzburg to various points in the interior of Africa. On arriving
at the little frontier town of Utrecht in the Transvaal, in charge
of two waggon loads of mixed goods consigned to a storekeeper
there, it was discovered that five cases of brandy were missing
from his waggon. The storekeeper called him a thief and the two men
came to blows. Before anybody could interfere, the storekeeper
received a nasty wound in his side. That night, Hadden trekked back
into Natal, loaded up with Kaffir goods--such as blankets, calico,
and hardware--and crossed into Zululand, where no sheriff's officer
would be likely to follow. Being well acquainted with the language
and customs of the natives, he did good trade with them, and soon
found himself possessed of some cash and a small herd of cattle,
which he received in exchange for his wares. Meanwhile news reached
him that the man whom he had injured still vowed vengeance against
him, and was in communication with the authorities in Natal. These
reasons making his return to civilisation undesirable for the
moment, and further business being impossible until he could
receive a fresh supply of trade stuff, Hadden like a wise man
turned his thoughts to pleasure. Sending his cattle and waggon over
the border to be left in charge of a native headman with whom he
was friendly, he went on foot to Ulundi to obtain permission from
the king, Cetywayo, to hunt game in his country. Somewhat to his
surprise, the Indunas or headmen, received him courteously--for
Hadden's visit took place within a few months of the outbreak of
the Zulu war in 1878, when Cetywayo was already showing
unfriendliness to the English traders and others . . . .
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Belshazzar (Paperback)
H. Rider Haggard
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