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Tag: H Rider Haggard

The Ghost Kings

On February 16, 2018 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Books, race relations3 Comments

by Henry Rider Haggard For my final look (for now) at the works of Rider Haggard, I have chosen, quite by accident, a novel that appeals to me on two levels - literary and personal. Set in South Africa, The Ghost Kings has as its main protagonist a young woman, Rachel Dove, daughter of an …

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Mad Dogs and Englishmen

On February 9, 2018 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Books, Science fiction and fantasy3 Comments

Ayesha - the Return of She by Henry Rider Haggard 'The dogs had seen us now and came on, growling and baying fearfully. With a rush they came, and I am not ashamed to own that I felt terribly afraid. One . . . outstripped the others and, leaping up, sprang straight at my throat.' …

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She

On February 1, 2018 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Books, Science fiction and fantasy7 Comments

by Henry Rider Haggard 'I looked up again and now her perfect form lay in his arms, and her lips were pressed against his own; and thus, with the corpse of his dead love for an altar, did Leo Vincey plight his troth to her red-handed murderess.' I'll begin my review with a question: to …

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Allan Quatermain

On January 26, 2018 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Books, heroic deeds6 Comments

by Henry Rider Haggard 'I have seen beautiful women in my day, and am no longer thrown into transports at the sight of a pretty face; but language fails me when I try to give some idea of the blaze of loveliness that then broke upon us in the persons of these sister Queens.' This …

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