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Henry Rider Haggard
H.R. Haggard page. Choose another writer in this calendar Sir Henry Rider Haggard (18561925). Prolific English writer, who published colorful novels set in unknown regions and
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Extractions: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) Prolific English writer, who published colorful novels set in unknown regions and lost kingdoms of Africa, or some other corner of the world: Iceland, Constantinople, Mexico, Ancient Egypt. Haggard's best-known work is the romantic adventure tale KING SOLOMON'S MINES (1885), which was inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's famous Treasure Island . Haggard also was an agricultural reformer and a faithful servant of the British Empire. However, his depiction of other cultures has been considered more complex than was common in contemporary popular romances. "Welcome, white men from the stars," he said; "this is a different sight from what your eyes gazed on by the light of last night's moon, but it is not so good a sight. Girls are pleasant, and were it not for such as these" (and he pointed round him) "we should none of us be here to- day; but men are better. Kisses and the tender words of women are sweet, but the sound of the clashing of men's spears, and the smell of men's blood, are sweeter far! Would ye have wives from among our people, white men? If so, choose the fairest here, and ye shall have them, as many as ye will;" and he paused for an answer.' (from King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard was born in West Bradenham Hall, Norfolk, as the eight son of William Haggard, a barrister and a country squire, and Ella (Doventon) Haggard, an amateur writer. In his childhood young Henry Rider was seen as the family dunce by his father. Haggard educated at a London day-school, privately, and Ipswich Grammar School. After failing the army entrance, Haggard went in 1875 to Natal as a secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer, Governor of Natal colony. In 1877 he joined the staff of the special commissioner. Next year he became Master and Registrar of the High Court in the Transvaal. For the rest of his life Haggard viewed with understanding the British colonial policy, sharing in this the conventional imperialistic attitudes of his friend
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Haggard, H. Rider (HENRY Rider), 18561925. Letter to G. de Poix and newsclippings.
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She By H. Rider Haggard, A Classic Fantasy Adventure Book
Bibliography (Sir) H. Rider Haggard (18561925) was a UK writer of fiction and nonfiction.
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Extractions: A runaway bestseller on its publication in 1887, H. Rider Haggard's She is a Victorian thrill ride of a novel, featuring a lost African kingdom ruled by a mysterious, implacable queen; ferocious wildlife and yawning abysses; and an eerie love story that spans two thousand years. She has bewitched readers from Freud and Jung to C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien; in her Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic which includes period illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and Charles H. M. Kerr Margaret Atwood asserts that the awe-inspiring Ayesha, "She-who-must-be-obeyed," is "a permanent feature of the human imagination." For two thousand endless years, She had maintained her vigil. She, whose supernal powers could have made emperors her slaves, was only the Witch Queen of the debased and savage Amahagger. Her awesome beauty was veiled from the world in the isolated African valley of Kôr. She waited. For in Kôr lay the mummified body of her lost lover, Kallikrates - killed by her hand when he turned to other women - and She was doomed to tarry until he should come again in mortal flesh.
H. RIDER HAGGARD
Rider Haggard was one of the earliest and best inventors and developers of the exotic adventure novel H. (Henry) Rider Haggard (18561925), along with Robert Louis Stevenson, and to a lesser extent R.M.Ballantyne, G.A.Henty,
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Extractions: Rider Haggard: King of the Exotic Adventure Story H. (Henry) Rider Haggard (1856-1925), along with Robert Louis Stevenson, and to a lesser extent R.M.Ballantyne, G.A.Henty, and some others, pretty much established the "Adventure Novel" over a hundred years ago. Everything since, from JRR Tolkien to David Drake, John Buchan to Ian Fleming, Edgar Rice Burroughs to Orson Scott Card, etc. (odd analogies on my part, but think about it...) has been influenced by this when a novel in whatever field of fantasy, science fiction, or the 'real life' of spying in exotic places has required a template. Haggard really was a true talent, and still bears up after all these years. I have just finished King Solomon's Mines for the fifth or sixth time since first reading it at age 12 or so. And I can say it actually seems BETTER now than it did when I was in my 20's and 30's (I am now Allan Quatermain's age at the time he wrote up his adventures), although not striking with the great impact it did on first exposure. It is, first of all, a Ripping Yarn (like Star Wars), with lots of blood and gore and heroic adventure, and very little romantic distraction by extraneous love affairs with damsels in distress i.e. a great boys' book with a lot of violence (heads cut off, someone torn in half by an elephant, etc., coo-ul), triumph over extreme hardships, the treasure to be won at the end of the quest, really nasty bad people, and lots of bare-boobed girls à la National Geographic. Second, it is well-written, if carelessly (e.g., crescent moons do not rise at sunset or rise at 10 PM the next night in the full state) descriptions are crisp and vivid, characters are clearly delineated although very archetypically as in a fairy tale or Knights of the Round Table story, there are some very funny comic relief scenes just at the right time, the language is not at all high flown or prosy... This book is a model on how to write such a book, if you will forgive me putting it that way.
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Project Gutenberg Author record. Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 18561925.Titles. Allan And The Holy Flower. Allan Quatermain. Allan's Wife. Beatrice.
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Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August, 18341919. Haggard, H. Rider (HenryRider), 1856-1925. Haies, Edward, fl. 1580. Haight, Canniff, b. 1825.
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Planet Poetry: Chastened Loveliness Of The Moon [Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
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Extractions: (from She It was a wonderfully beautiful sight, and yet sad, perhaps, from the very excess of its beauty. The arising sun; the setting sun! There we have the symbol and the type of humanity, and all things with which humanity has to do. The symbol and the type, yes, and the earthly beginning, and the end also. And on that morning this came home to me with a peculiar force. The sun that rose to-day for us had set last night for eighteen of our fellow-voyagers!had set everlastingly for eighteen whom we knew! The dhow had gone down with them, they were tossing about among the rocks and seaweed, so much human drift on the great ocean of Death! And we four were saved. But one day a sunrise will come when we shall be among those who are lost, and then others will watch those glorious rays, and grow sad in the midst of beauty, and dream of Death in the full glow of arising Life! For this is the lot of man.
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Queen Sheba's Ring by Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider) (18561925). Copyright2001 Keith Ito. All Rights Reserved. Admin Control Panel.
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H Rider Haggard - She - Free Books 5000.com
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Extractions: Haggard, Henry Rider (1856-1925) - English novelist best known for his romantic adventure novels written against South African backgrounds. She (1887) - Haggard's most successful work tells the remarkable story of Horace Holly and his charge Leo Vincey as they go in search of the white queen and the Fire of Life. These things are related to them in some old Greek manuscripts which recount the history of the Vincey family and also contain an appeal to the descendants of Kallikrates to avenge his murder.
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Adventure and adventurers Africa Fiction. Records 1 to 7 of 7. Haggard, H.Rider (Henry Rider), 18561925. Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925.
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H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard 18561925 An often repeated anecdote has it that King Solomon'sMines was written on a bet H. Rider Haggard claimed, and his brother doubted
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Extractions: An often repeated anecdote has it that King Solomon's Mines was written on a bet: H. Rider Haggard claimed, and his brother doubted, that he could write a better and more successful adventure story than Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Hence King Solomon's Mines was written, published, and became a phenomenon in 1885. Born into the large family of a country gentleman, Haggard was a colonial administrator in South Africa during the Zulu War of 1879 and the first Boer War of 1880. He drew on his experience in Africa to write King Solomon's Mines, a story, like Treasure Island, of maps, buried treasure, villainy, and English pluck. In South Africa, Haggard developed an appreciation for African cultures and rituals. While such appreciation is evident in King Solomon's Mines and its 1887 sequel, Allan Quatermain, also apparent is Haggard's subscription to Victorian ideas of European superiority (Haggard's other well-known novel is She
Haas, Jessie
1997. Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 18561925. King Solomon's mines. sound recording. Haggard,H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925. She. sound recording.
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Extractions: Haas, Jessie. Unbroken. [sound recording]. Fiction on cassette. Prince Frederick, Md.: Recorded Books, p2001. 96531. Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Don't you dare read this, Mrs. Dunphrey. [sound recording]. Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, p1997. Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Just Ella. [sound recording]. Fiction on cassette. Prince Frederick, Md.: Recorded Books, p2000. 96216. Haden, Charlie. Beyond the Missouri sky short stories. [sound recording]. New York, N.Y.: Verve, p1997. 314 537 130-2. Hader, Berta. The big snow. [sound recording]. New York, Recorded Books, 1948, 1999. Hagberg, David. Assassin. [sound recording]. Santa Fe, NM: Sunset Productions, 1997. Hagberg, David. Countdown. [sound recording]. Santa Fe: Sunset Productions, Inc. 1996. Hagberg, David. Critical mass. [sound recording]. Santa Fe: Sunset Productions, Inc., 1995. Hagberg, David. Crossfire. [sound recording]. Santa Fe: Sunset Productions, Inc. 1997. Hagberg, David. Desert fire. [sound recording]. Burlington, Ont.; Niagara Falls, N.Y.: Durkin Hayes, p1993. DHP 7360. Hagberg, David. The girl who ran off with daddy. [sound recording].
BrothersJudd.com - Review Of H. Haggard's King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines (1885). Author Info H. Rider Haggard Henry18561925 Legend has it that when H. Rider Haggard read Treasure
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Extractions: Legend has it that when H. Rider Haggard read Treasure Island he was so underwhelmed that he bet five shillings he could do better. He proceeded to combine the recent discovery of diamonds at Kimberly, South Africa and of the great Zimbabwe Ruins, the real-life exploits of explorers like Richard Francis Burton, the legend of the lost kingdom of Prester John , a treasure map, a witch doctor, and many more classic and soon-to-be-classic elements into one of the great adventures stories of all time. Allan Quartermain, Sir Henry Curtis, and Captain John Good trek deep into the heart of deepest Africa in search of Sir Henry's brother and of the lost mines of King Solomon. Along the way they encounter all manner of hardship, escape from innumerable seemingly impossible predicaments, restore a lost king to his rightful throne, and are well rewarded for their efforts. This is all just rip roaring good fun and, for obvious reasons, spawned many sequels and scores of imitators. If you've ever wondered precisely what the Indiana Jones movies are a homage to : pick this book up and wonder no more.
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Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 18561925. She / H. Rider Haggard; edited with an introduction by Daniel Karlin. Oxford ; New
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