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In H. Rider Haggard's 1885 debut novel, King Solomon's Mines adventurer Allan Quatermain is approached by aristocrat Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good to join them on an expedition into the heart of Africa. In search of Sir Henry's brother who disappeared looking for King Solomon's lost mines, the trio overcome tremendous odds to stumble upon a lost civilization that holds the key to unimaginable treasure. Considered to be the first of...
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"A Man of Honor" is a story of the growth, life, personal development, and love of a young man Blackie O'Neill. The novel's beginning presents Blackie as an orphaned 13-year-old boy who has just buried his sister and is facing an uncertain future of poverty. Yet, he is ambitious, driven, disciplined, and determined to make it to the top. He moves to another country, studies and works hard, and starts to dream of greater things. His story has been...
3) Jess
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This rattling 1887 action-adventure set in Africa's Transvaal region appeared the same year as Haggard's She. During the first Boer War, Captain John Niel plans to settle down on Silas Croft's farm, but falls into a love triangle with his nieces. And, to further complicate Niel's situation, he also must protect one of the nieces from a lecherous megalomaniac.
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In Lysbeth (1901), H. Rider Haggard, recounts an inspiring story of love, faith, and hardship. Lysbeth, a young sixteenth-century Dutch woman, is forced to endure the tribulations of the Spanish occupation of her homeland and the terrors of the Inquisition. The momentous events of her life unfold against the turbulent backdrop of the struggle for Dutch independence, led by William the Silent.
5) Heu-Heu
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Allan Quatermain series volume 12
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Heu-Heu is an adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard. Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances. Excerpt: "We did not reach the cave too soon, for as the boys scrambled into it after us the hail began to come down in earnest, and you fellows know, or at any rate have heard, what African hail can be, especially among the mountains of the Berg. I have known it to go through sheets of galvanized iron like rifle bullets, and really I believe...
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During the Dutch "Great Trek" to South Africa, an African-raised Dutch girl named Swallow encounters a shipwreck and falls in love with its stranded English passenger, Ralph. But Swart Piet-who is allied with the sorceress Sihamba-tries to keep Ralph away. Haggard's 1898 novel is classic of romance and adventure.
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Haggard was commissioned to write this 1910 work by his friend William Booth, the founder and first general of the Salvation Army. Haggard took the assignment seriously, traveling throughout England to gather first-hand observations of the Salvation Army in action; describing such institutions as shelters, free breakfast services, women's and men's social work, hospitals, and the anti-suicide bureau.
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Allan Quatermain series volume 4
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"Our old friend Allan Quatermain" (Publishers Weekly) returns in this fourth (1888) volume of globe-trotting derring-do. Allan narrates the tale of a Zulu woman who, during a hunt for African ivory, seeks his protection-and swears vengeance for the murder of her child.
10) Love Eternal
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H. Rider Haggard tells the fascinating story of two children whose affinity with each other goes far beyond earthly love. As they mature, their parents oppose their marriage. They are forced to live apart but stay connected in spirit until every impediment to their union vanishes, and they can be together again in the real world.
11) Red Eve
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1346: Eve Clattering, known as "Red Eve" for the color of her dress, weds a lustful traitor of a knight-against her will, for he dosed her with a love potion. Now her real love must brave plague-stricken Europe, on a desperate quest: to have Eve's illicit marriage annulled by the Pope!
12) She
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She (1887), an intoxicating mix of adventure, fantasy, and romance, is an underappreciated classic of English literature. Among his most successful works, She-which was inspired by Haggard's experience living in South Africa-helped the author establish his reputation as a leading writer of his generation and an invaluable pioneer of the lost world genre of fantasy fiction. Horace Holly, a young Cambridge professor, receives an unexpected opportunity...
13) Child of Storm
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Allan Quatermain series volume 6
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What begins as a simple mission to win a dowry for a bride spirals into political and social unrest as a famed hunter, Allan Quatermain, witnesses a nation slip into a civil war. Known for his outdoorsman skills, Quatermain's friend, Saduko, approaches him to ask for help winning a dowry for the woman he loves. Hoping to marry a beautiful and mysterious woman named Mameema, Saduko must obtain a sum of one hundred cattle to use as a dowry. Happy to...
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Allan Quatermain series volume 13
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In the fourth and final book in the She sequence, the beautiful and immortal Ayesha tells her tale of power, wisdom, love, and deception, in her own words. Arabian by birth, Ayesha's natural beauty was the cause in her father's kingdom of many wars and conflicts between jealous princes and suitors, leading to a rumour that she was cursed. Swearing an oath of celibacy, to serve Isis the Goddess of the Spirit of Nature and turn away from Aphrodite the...
15) Marie: A Novel
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Allan Quatermain series volume 5
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Set in a district of the Cape Colony, a British settlement in South Africa, young Allan Quatermain and Marie Marias meet when they share the same tutor. Though they quickly befriend each other, their friendship is frowned upon by Marie's father, since Marie is Dutch, and Allan is English. Despite her father's distain, Marie and Allan get closer as they grow. After Allan helps save Marie's life, their relationship becomes more passionate. In attempts...
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