Генри Райдер Хаггард

Olaf, a Norseman in the eighth century A.D. flees his homeland after challenging the Norse god Odin’s right to a human sacrifice, travels to Constantinople to protect the Empress Irene Augusta from her son Constantine the Fifth and other enemies of the Eastern Roman Empire. From Byzantinum, to the pyramid tombs of Upper Egypt, Olaf becomes a [...]

While Quartermain visits Lord Randall, two foreigners come asking for Macumazana – that is, asking for Allan Quartermain by the name he used among the Africans. The two visitors are Harut and Marut, priests and doctors of the White Kendah People and they have come to ask Allan Quartermain for his help. The White Kendah people are at war with the [...]

The Mahatma and the Hare is the story of the selfcalled mahatma – a spiritual man who is able, when asleep, to view “The Great White Road” on which the souls of those recently departed enter heaven – encounters the hare of the title after that animal’s death. Barbara Who Came Back is the story of Septimus Walrond, who was returning from [...]

Treasure and the occult are vividly blended in this stirring tale of Africa. Allan Quatermain finds a village in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with a strange knowledge of future [...]

Rachel Dove’s and Richard Darrien’s lives fi rst intersect in Africa when the brave man saves a minister’s daughter, from a fl ash fl ood. Years pass before they meet again: This time Rachel needs help escaping a Zulu tribe that would have her as their goddess and evading another man who wants her for his [...]

The beautiful and immortal Ayesha tells her story 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 rumor that she was cursed Swearing an oath of celibacy, to serve Isis the [...]

The Witch’s Head is the second novel by H Rider Haggard, which he wrote just prior to King Solomon’s Mines. Zulu magic comes to the British Fenlands, as the severed head of a sorcerer casts a spell from beyond the grave. The story sweeps from England to the South African setting Haggard knew well from his years with Britain’s colonial [...]

The hero of the story is Alan Vernon, a young retired army major, who, after undergoing financial ruin, decides to travel to Africa to make his fortune, in hopes of eventually winning the hand of beautiful Barbara Champers-Haswell. Vernon has heard of a mysterious kingdom ruled by the priestess and plans to help himself to the gold found [...]