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H. Rider Haggard, KBE (/ ˈ h æ ɡ ər d /; 1856–1925) was a British writer, largely of adventure fiction, but also of non-fiction.The eighth child of a Norfolk barrister and squire, [1] through family connections he gained employment with Sir Henry Bulwer during the latter's service as lieutenant-governor of Natal, South Africa. [2]
Henry Rider Haggard, generally known as H. Rider Haggard or Rider Haggard, was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, the eighth of ten children, to William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet. [3] His father was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1817 to British parents. [4]
King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 popular novel [1] by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard.It tells of an expedition through an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain, searching for the missing brother of one of the party.
Rider Haggard after his return to England in 1881. Rider Haggard returned to Britain in 1881. At the time, England was increasingly beset by the social and cultural anxieties that marked the fin de siècle. [14] One of the most prominent concerns was the fear of political and racial decline, encapsulated in Max Nordau's Degeneration (1895).
Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis is an adventure novel written by English author H. Rider Haggard and first printed in 1889 by Longmans. Cleopatra mixes historical action with supernatural events, and could be described as a historical fantasy novel. [1]
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