Henry Rider Haggard

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the story of what was, perhaps, one of the strangest of all the adventures which have befallen me in the course of a life that so far can scarcely be called tame or humdrum....

pubOne.info present you this new edition. You have graciously conveyed to me the intelligence that during the weary weeks spent far from his home- in alternate hope and fear, in suffering and mortal trial- a Prince whose memory all men must reverence, the Emperor Frederick, found pleasure in the reading of my stories: that "e;they interested...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. The period in which the story of The World's Desire is cast, was a period when, as Miss Braddon remarks of the age of the Plantagenets, "e;anything might happen. "e; Recent discoveries, mainly by Dr. Schliemann and Mr. Flinders Petrie, have shown that there really was much intercourse between...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. The story which is narrated in the following pages came to me from the lips of my old friend Allan Quatermain, or Hunter Quatermain, as we used to call him in South Africa. He told it to me one evening when I was stopping with him at the place he bought in Yorkshire. Shortly after that, the death of his...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. who "e;bound all to her"e; and, while her father cut his way through the hordes of the Ingobo Regiment, perished of the hardships of war at Buluwayo on 19th May, 1896, I dedicate these tales- and more particularly the last, that of a Faith which triumphed over savagery and death....

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Of all the beautiful women of history, none has left us such convincing proofs of her charms as Cleopatra, for the tide of Rome's destiny, and, therefore, that of the world, turned aside because of her beauty. Julius Caesar, whose legions trampled the...