Henry Rider Haggard

pubOne.info present you this new edition. The author supposes that the first of the above extracts must have impressed him. At any rate, on the night after the reading of it, just as he went to sleep, or on the following morning just as he awoke, he cannot tell which, there came to him the title and the outlines of this fantasy, including the...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. For five long but not unhappy years, seated or journeying side by side, we have striven as Royal Commissioners to find a means whereby our coasts may be protected from "e;the outrageous flowing surges of the sea"e; (I quote the jurists of centuries ago), the idle swamps turned to fertility and the...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Only a friendship extending over many years emboldened me, an amateur, to propose to dedicate a Romance of Old Egypt to you, one of the world's masters of the language and lore of the great people who in these latter days arise from their holy tombs to instruct us in the secrets of history and faith....

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Every one has read the monograph, I believe that is the right word, of my dear friend, Professor Higgs- Ptolemy Higgs to give him his full name- descriptive of the tableland of Mur in North Central Africa, of the ancient underground city in the mountains which surrounded it, and of the strange tribe of...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Sir Henry Curtis, as everybody acquainted with him knows, is one of the most hospitable men on earth. It was in the course of the enjoyment of his hospitality at his place in Yorkshire the other day that I heard the hunting story which I am now about to transcribe. Many of those who read it will no doubt...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. The author ventures to take this opportunity to thank his readers for the kind reception they have accorded to the successive editions of this tale during the last twelve years. He hopes that in its present form it will fall into the hands of an even wider public, and that in years to come it may continue...