Bøker av H. Rider Haggard

'Ayesha' is written by H. Rider Haggard. A evocative story of love and magic that spans the centuries to challenge death and time. Ayesha is an attractive and majestic woman with supernatural powers who spends centuries waiting for the rebirth of a lover from past ages. Ayesha, the strange and eternal white queen of a Central African tribe. She is the personification of the mythical female figure who is heinous, desirable, and mortal. Leo is on a search for Ayesha and once again with Holly he reaches far and wide into the East.

In 1896, H. R. Haggard's novel 'The Wizard' was first published. The Wizard is an exemplary and notable writing of Haggard, depicting imperialist era. The story is based on Reverend Owen's mission to convert, the African tribal people known as People of Fire to Christianity. During colonialism, it was British belief, to make colonial people more civilized, convert their thought and beliefs by spreading the idea of Christianity. In this, Haggard also shows the power of womanhood by a strong female character Noma.

'Allan's Wife' is a thrilling novel written by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1889. The book narrates beginning of Quatermain's life and inevitable luck of his wife Stella. The story is classic African adventure with effect of superficial powers and ghost. Allan Quatermain was a prominent hunter of his time. In South Africa, Allan brought up as a missionary son, his topmost interest is to find out the secrets of the land. Allan and his wife trace out a hidden tribal community controlled by a strange creature and undergoes dozens of thrilling happenings along the way.

As the title 'Allan and the Holy Flower' is a 1915 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. This book is representing the adventures of Allan Quatermain, great English hunter in the wilds of Africa. This story relates an expedition for a rare orchid, and the search for the kidnapped wife of one of Quatermain's friends. The lady was missing 20 years earlier. The orchid search takes them to a concealed dying civilization in which the flower is considered holy.

'When the World Shook' is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, printed in 1919. This is a model text which notifies the terror of a ghost town. There are three friends_ Arbuthnot, the leader, is a man of millions looking for meaning in the world. Bastin is a priest who believes in the progressive explanation of the Bible. Bickley is a doctor, a man of science and who only believes what can be proved. It is an uncommon defective piece of early science fiction, secured with colonial anthropology, religion, philosophy, humour and romance. This novel is about rebirth love.

In 1906, H. Rider Haggard's novel 'An African Romance' was published. It is a thrilling, romance mixed, exciting story. Benita, the prophetic female character, helps in a search, for secret treasure buried in Transvaal. A hypnotized boy reveals the secret of the treasure the help of his exact and accurate description the treasure hunters were able to find out the lost riches. But unfortunately the search party was hunted by the natives people in superstitious fear.

In 1909, H. Rider Haggard's novel 'The Lady of Blossholme' was published. It was one of the most adventurous and historical novel of the time. The story is of England during the rule of Henry VIII in 1536. It is featuring the revolt, 'Pilgrimage of Grace' broke out during the reign of Henry VIII. It is narrating the event, in which on one hand King Henry was rebelling against Pope Clement VII, on the other hand, many clergyman and people of Northern England, rebelling against King Henry VIII.

Stella Fregelius: A Tale of Three Destinies is a novel written by H. R. Haggard, a well known British writer. It is a mysterious romantic novel, mingling the fate of three persons, inventor Morris Monk, his cousin Mary Parson and Stella Fregelius. It is a complex drama that emphasises the power of love with science fiction and spiritualism. Haggard conveys the message that eternal love is everlasting. He strongly represents two conflicting approaches of life together, one is earthly; another is mystic.

H.R. Haggard's novel 'The Virgin of Sun' was published in 1922. It is a marvellous legendary composition of Haggard, in which he depicts South America's Inca history as a adventurous tale. The story begins with giving an account of, finding an ancient manuscript, in a tomb in South America. After that he narrates an English man Hubert's expedition to South America and his love for the native princess Quilla and fight for the people.

This novel is the final volume of the Allan Quatermain saga, and it comprises the fourth part of a loosely linked series begun with Allan and the Holy Flower. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic taduki drug, as he did in previous novels, and he finds himself reliving as Wi, an civilized man living in the barbaric Ice Age as part of a clan of cave-men.

King Solomon's Mines tells of the search by Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good and the narrator, Allan Quatermain, for Sir Henry's younger brother George.He has been lost in the interior of Africa for two years in his quest for King Solomon's Mines, the legendary source of the biblical king's enormous riches.The three companions encounter fearful hardships, fierce warriors, mortal danger and the sinister and deadly witch Gagool.