Bøker av H. Rider Haggard

Pearl-Maiden A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Allan Quatermain, the sequel to King Solomon¿s Mines, was first serialized in Longman¿s Magazine in the U.K. and subsequently published as a novel in 1887. In it we see the eponymous hero reunited with his companions to travel to Africa on a dangerous and adventuresome quest to try to find a legendary tribe of white-skinned people, the Zu-Vendi. Having discovered their remote and isolated country, Quatermain and his crew become embroiled in its internal affairs, culminating in a bitter and violent civil war.

A professor is entreated by a dying colleague to take custody of the colleague¿s five-year old son, raise him to adulthood, and at that time pass on a chest to him. The professor does so, and when the child reaches adulthood and the chest is revealed, it leads them on an adventure to Africa. There they encounter a young queen of a lost race who says she¿s over two thousand years old, with an equally startling claim about the young man.H. Rider Haggard invented the ¿lost world¿ genre of fiction with King Solomon¿s Mines, and he continued the theme, adding in a bit of romance, in She. Haggard wrote the book in six months ¿in a white heat,¿ and handed the manuscript to his agent with the remark, ¿There is what I shall be remembered by.¿ Haggard was right: with its setting in darkest Africa and a woman at its center described as the most beautiful in the world, She was a sensation at its release, has never been out of print, and has sold upwards of 100 million copies.