Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature,...
Afrika, pervaja polovina XIX veka. Dar jasnovidenija tjazhkim bremenem pal na plechi Rejchel Douv, docheri surovogo anglijskogo missionera. Strashnyj son, iz kotorogo ona uznala, chto mozhet povelevat...
Chemu byt, togo ne minovat. Posle chetyrnadtsati let sluzhby v britanskoj armii kapitan Dzhon Nil reshaet ujti na pokoj i nachat novuju zhizn v kachestve fermera v afrikanskoj glubinke. No kto znaet, chto...
Roman klassika prikljuchencheskoj literatury Genri Rajdera Khaggarda ALLAN KVOTERMEJN - istorija o zakhvatyvajuschikh prikljuchenijakh otvazhnykh puteshestvennikov, popavshikh v zaterjannyj mir v serdtse...
Aprel 1877 goda, Juzhnaja Afrika. Allan Kvotsrmejn, okhotivshijsja nepodaleku ot Lidenburga, poddavshis svoej glavnoj slabosti - ljubopytstvu, reshaet zaekhat v Pretoriju, gde, po slukham, gotovitsja odno...
This novel takes place in ancient Egypt. The hero, prince Rames, goes through many challenges and daring encounters to win his way through to the woman he loved with all his heart and the recognition that...
Haggard's faith-fortifying novel is a delicious blend of stirring events, captivating characters, and historical detail. The story is about the destruction of Jerusalem, about first-century life as they...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre.The novel narrates the events of the Biblical...
The author of adventures as King Solomon's Mines and She turns to domestic drama in this romance. Joan is a shop girl of illegitimate birth a single mother at the same time. Torn from the love of country-dwelling...
This is a tale of adventure and derring-do set in the time of King Henry VIII and the pilgrimage of grace. This was the period when King Henry was rebelling against Pope Clement VII, and when many Englishmen...
Jess Croft lives with sister Bessie and old Silas, a farmer raising ostriches on the great Transvaal veldt. He is a reserved and aloof, with a quietness about her brought on by the misfortunes of her young...
Stella Fregelius is a story of the overlapping fates of 3 people in a northern coastal region of England. The story follows Morris Monk, an aspiring inventor, as he gets engaged to his fi rst cousin, Mary...
Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer, largely of adventure fiction, but also of non-fiction. The eighth child of a Norfolk barrister and squire, through family connections he gained employment with...
Philip Caresfoot is all but promised to marry the local heiress, Maria Lee. They are both to inherit small fortunes in their own right. And thus their marriages to each other would make an ever wealthier...
Besstrashnyj okhotnik Allan Kvotermejn po prozvischu Makumazan, chto oznachaet "chelovek, kotoryj vstaet posle polunochi", nikogda ne ljubil syrosti i chopornosti rodnoj Anglii, predpochitaja zharkij pylnyj...
An autobiography of Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer, largely of adventure fi ction. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter...
Cetywayo and His White Neighbours is a 1882 non-fiction book by Henry Rider Haggard. It was based on his time working in South Africa.Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set...
Allan Quatermain is confronted with the legend of the Heu-Heu, a monster who eats humans, while sheltering from a thunderstorm in the Drakensberg mountains. The legend appears to be reality as Quatermain...
While Quartermain visits Lord Randall, two foreigners come asking for Macumazana - that is, asking for Allan Quartermain by the name he used among the Africans. The two visitors are Harut and Marut, priests...
Olaf, a Norseman in the eighth century A.D., flees his homeland after challenging the Norse god Odin's right to a human sacrifice, travels to Constantinople to protect the Empress Irene Augusta from her...
Colonel Quaritch is an impoverished nobleman, who is looking for the family jewels of his bride - the "treasure de la Moley". He moves to the house of his late aunt in the village of Honhem and soon becomes...
The last novel written by Haggard; finished just before his death and published posthumously. Ramose is the offspring of an Egyptian Pharaoh and a Greek woman. Brought up in a life of luxury he is catapulted...
Wanting to learn if he can communicate with deceased the children, adventurer Allan Quatermain seeks a meeting with the feared Zulu witch-doctor Zikali. He tells Allan he must seek out the great white...
She is the story of Cambridge professor Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey, and their journey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. The journey is triggered by a mysterious package left to Leo by...
Brother John, who has been living in Africa for many years, gives Allan Quatermain the largest orchid he has ever seen. Later, in England, he has a meeting with Mr. Somers, an orchid collector who is prepaired...
The Virgin of the Sun is a novel by H. Rider Haggard set in South America.A tale that deals with the marvellous Incas of Peru; with the legend also that, long before the Spanish Conquerors entered on their...
The Witch's Head is the second novel by H Rider Haggard, which he wrote just prior to King Solomon's Mines. Zulu magic comes to the British Fenlands, as the severed head of a sorcerer casts a spell from...
Nada the Lily is the thrilling story of the brave Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and his love for the most beautiful of Zulu women, Nada the Lily. Young Umslopogaas, son of the bloodthirsty Zulu king Chaka,...
The young Godfrey Knight, the son of a puritanical parson, who lives in the Essex countryside. From childhood on, he and his neighbor, Isobel Blake, the daughter of a wealthy, boorish shipping magnate,...
A young man named Rupert Ullershaw falls in a love with the wife of his much older cousin, Lord Devene. The woman commits suicide, and the young Rupert promises his mother to henceforward "follow The Way...
Navernoe, nikto tak silno ne ljubil svoj dom, kak Odissej, syn Laerta. On pobyval v nevedomykh stranakh, perenosilsja v Tsarstvo tenej i snov. O pervykh ego stranstvijakh znaet ves mir. No bez radosti...
V novyj tom illjustrirovannykh sochinenij G.R.Khaggarda vkhodjat dva ostrosjuzhetnykh romana o viktorianskoj Anglii, vyzvavshie sereznyj rezonans u sovremennikov pisatelja, - "Zaveschanie mistera Mizona"...
The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. The main character Harmachis is charged by...
King Solomon's Mines tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure...
I vek do n. e. Egipet pod pjatoj Ptolemeev, naslednikov imperii Aleksandra Makedonskogo, no v serdtsakh istinnykh detej Nila zhivet mechta o bozhestvennom pravitele. Tjazhkoe bremja lozhitsja na plechi...
Roman "Ona: istorija prikljuchenija" byl napisan Khaggardom na volne uspekha "Kopij tsarja Solomona". V osnovu romana legli vospominanija avtora o svoikh puteshestvijakh po Afrike i znanija drevnikh mestnykh...
Zadolgo do Indiany Dzhonsa suschestvoval Alan Kvotermejn: nastojaschij avantjurist, issledovatel i okhotnik za sokrovischami. Knigi ob Alane Kvotermejne pokorjajut chitatelej vsekh vozrastov, vdokhnoviv...
