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[3] Rider Haggard was interested in land affairs and wrote several works on the subject; in 1895 he served on a government commission to examine Salvation Army labour colonies, and in 1911 he served on the Royal Commission examining coastal erosion. He was an inveterate letter writer to The Times, and had nearly 100 letters published by the ...
The wizard / by H. Rider Haggard. Author: Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925. Software used: HathiTrust: Conversion program: Mac OS X 10.6.8 Quartz PDFContext: Encrypted: no: Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) Version of PDF format: 1.3
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]
Inspired by Haggard's time in South Africa (1875–82). It was illustrated by Charles H. M. Kerr . The novel tells the tale of the origin and early life of the hero Umslopogaas, the unacknowledged son of the great Zulu king and general Chaka , and his love for "the most beautiful of Zulu women", Nada the Lily.
Red Eve is a historical novel with fantasy elements, by British writer H. Rider Haggard, set in the reign of Edward III. [1] Red Eve depicts the Battle of Crécy and the Black Death , and also features a supernatural personification of Death called Murgh.
Wisdom's Daughter is a fantasy novel by British writer H. Rider Haggard, published in 1923, by Hutchinson & Co in the UK and Doubleday, Page and Company in the US. It is the final published book in the Ayesha series but chronologically the first book in the series.
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Allan's Wife and Other Tales is a collection of Allan Quatermain stories by H. Rider Haggard, first published in London by Spencer Blackett in December 1889.The title story was new, with its first publication intended for the collection, but two unauthorized editions appeared earlier in New York, based on pirated galley proofs.