Henry Rider Haggard Books
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A Tale Of Three Lions
[english | 1887]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... doors the angels of the sun seem to move continually. And there, too, is the wild game, following its feeding-grounds in great armies, with the springbuck ...... life, and most curious some of them were. No man can pass all those years following the rough existence of an elephant-hunter without meeting with many ...... just in time, for in another moment I should have gone for him, ...]
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Allan And The Holy Flower
[english | 1915]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... really attached to each other. Unfortunately, however, they quarrelled violently about another gentlemen with whom Miss Manners danced four consecutive ...... you. I'm not sure. I suppose it must be a Cymbidium scape from the size. I shook my head. That's not the name my friend mentioned. He called it a ...... I pointed out the difficulties and dangers of the situation to him and ...]
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Allan And The Ice Gods
[english | 1927]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... either case, and therefore die as they have lived-quite good because nothing has ever moved them to be otherwise-the objects of the approbation of the ...... coal, I ain't ready. Ought I to say any hocus-pocus? Dash it all! it is like a nightmare about being hanged. No, I replied, as I dropped the ember ...... its last hold by the warmth of the sun, came thundering down the slope ...]
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Allan Quatermain
[english | 1887]Henry Rider Haggard
Summary: [Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggards 1885 novel King Solomons Mines and its various prequels and sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence.]
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Allans Wife
[english | 1889]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... tall, foreign- looking gentleman who stood beside her, and, tapping him affectionately on the shoulder with her gold eye-glasses, said- Look, cousin-look ...... at it with his finger, then turning round to point with the assegai towards his rival. For a while I looked at him in silence. He was a curious wizened ...... of these Kaffir wizards or witch-finders. But Indaba-zimbi ...]
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Ayesha
[english | 1905]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... And I am strong, I may live another fifty years. What then can you do? I asked. I can take a short road to knowledge-or to peace, he answered solemnly, ...... nor expected disturbance. We wondered whether the man from beyond the mountains was as good as his word and had brought down the vengeance of that priestess ...... by Leo shaking me and saying- Come here, Horace, I have ...]
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Beatrice
[english | 1890]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... face like that which upon this day first dawned on Geoffrey Bingham to his sorrow and his hope. It was strong and pure and sweet as the keen sea breath, ...... and the crowd ran after them. Who is the other? somebody asked. Mr. Bingham-the tall lawyer who came down from London the other day. Tell policeman-run ...... citadelled within the silent heart, that no human skill could ...]
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Benita An African Romance
[english | 1906]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... beautiful was that night! No air that stirred the black smoke from the funnels of the mail steamer Zanzibar lay low over the surface of ...... something dark rose beside them. It was a piece of wreckage, and clinging to it a woman, who clasped a bundle to her breast. More, she was alive, ...... with Benita senseless on his breast, and that answer still locked in her sleeping heart? ...]
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Black Heart And White Heart
[english | 1900]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... wizened and aged man who seemed to be pleading with him earnestly am I a dog that these white hyenas should hunt me thus? Is not the land mine, and ...... in a most unkingly manner, whilst the terrified Induna, springing backwards, contrived to touch the trigger of the rifle and discharge a bullet through ...... whose grizzled hair showed him to be over fifty years of age. His face ...]
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Cetywayo And His White Neighbours
[english | 1882]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... the king. 3. That no Zulu's life shall be taken without the previous knowledge and consent of the king, after such trial has taken place, and the right ...... opponents of the Annexation, or even the members of the Transvaal Independence Committee, knew what a Zulu invasion meant, they would scarcely have ...... will also, I believe, suffice to convince any just and impartial mind ...]
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Child Of Storm
[english | 1912]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... in the 'seventies, or from the lips of the great Shepstone, my chief and friend, and from my colleagues Osborn, Fynney, Clarke and others, every ...... that ever I had beheld. It was a vast cleft in which granite boulders were piled up fantastically, perched one upon another in great columns, and ...... am nothing but an old Kafir cheat who pretends to a knowledge that belongs to ...]
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Cleopatra
[english | 1889]Henry Rider Haggard
Summary: [Includes bibliographical references (xxv-xxvi).]
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Colonel Quaritch Vc
[english | 1888]Henry Rider Haggard
Summary: [Microfilm.]
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Dawn
[english | 1884]Henry Rider Haggard
Summary: [Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk is a 1997 memoir book by Aleksandr Korzhakov former head of Boris Yeltsins security. In it Korzhakov describes eleven years of his service and the personality of his patron first president of Russia. Yeltsin is portrayed as a heavy-drinker who hides his health problems. Korzhakov claims that he was offered 5 million for not publishing this book by business ...]
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Doctor Therne
[english | 1898]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... Dunchester, where he soon acquired a considerable reputation as a surgeon, and prospered, until not long after my birth, just as a brilliant career ...... Gomez and her husband to come and live with them a while. Now, quite alone and unescorted, she was on her way to Mexico City, where she expected to ...... not discover. In the end we started, and towards evening Antonio pointed ...]
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Eric Brighteyes
[english | 1889]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... my price. Pay it if thou wilt. Read me the dream and I will name the child. Nay, first name thou the babe: for then no harm shall come to her at ...... her heart. Listen, Gudruda, Eric said at last. Death draws near to us, and before it comes I would speak to thee, if speak I may. Speak on, she ...... in the morning which seemed well enough on yester eve. He remembered that he held ...]
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Fair Margaret
[english | 1907]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... left hand, mounted on a fine black horse, and dressed richly, but simply, in black velvet, with a cap of the same material in which was fastened ...... is not this foreign lord bond for me? What can be done? she went on then, as a thought struck her, turned to d'Aguilar, and, clasping her slender ...... beautiful cousin of yours not married? Has she no suitors? Suitors, Se~nor? Yes,...]
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Finished
[english | 1917]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... it all. Yes, as a young man, I was there at the time, but I do not remember, I do not know-the Inkoosi Lundanda (i.e. this Chronicler, so named in past ...... to speak, that I did not like. Before we parted that evening I felt sure that in one way or another he was a wrong-doer, not straight also that he had ...... any other mundane thing? Oh, my dear Quatermain, have you never ...]
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Heart Of The World
[english | 1895]Henry Rider Haggard
Excerpts: [... He sent for a cacique, who lived in the mountains, and spoke to him, and lo! within a week, fifty stalwart Indians appeared to offer their services ...... could imitate the other. The charm was bored through so as to be worn upon a chain, and engraved upon its surface were some strange hieroglyphics and ...... hate you because you treat your Indian workmen fairly, and also because ...]
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Heu Heu
[english | 1924]Henry Rider Haggard
Summary: [Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (22 June 1856 ? 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations predominantly Africa and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature continue to be popular and influential.]
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