H. Rider Haggard

When the World Shook (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, 'When the World Shook.'

 

Out-of-print for many years, When the World Shook is a classic text, which tells of the terror of a ghost town. The streets were empty, and so were the buildings, this city could not have been more dead had it been on the moon.

 

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. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved in agricultural reform and improvement in the British Empire.

 

His breakout novel was King Solomon's Mines (1885), which was to be the first in a series telling of the multitudinous adventures of its protagonist, Allan Quatermain.

 

Haggard was made a Knight Bachelor in 1912 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Conservative candidate for the Eastern division of Norfolk in 1895. The locality of Rider, British Columbia, was named in his memory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dead Dodo Presents Rider Haggard
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781508017950
• Artikelnr.: 55942931

Autorenporträt

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter I. Arbuthnot Describes Himself
Chapter II. Bastin and Bickley
Chapter III. Natalie
Chapter IV. Death and Departure
Chapter V. The Cyclone
Chapter VI. Land
Chapter VII. The Orofenans
Chapter VIII. Bastin Attempts the Martyr's Crown
Chapter IX. The Island in the Lake
Chapter X. The Dwellers in the Tomb
Chapter XI. Resurrection
Chapter XII. Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Years!
Chapter XIII. Oro Speaks and Bastin Argues
Chapter XIV. The Under-world
Chapter XV. Oro in His House
Chapter XVI. Visions of the Past
Chapter XVII. Yva Explains
Chapter XVIII. The Accident
Chapter XIX. The Proposals of Bastin and Bickley
Chapter XX. Oro and Arbuthnot Travel by Night
Chapter XXI. Love's Eternal Altar
Chapter XXII. The Command
Chapter XXIII. In the Temple of Fate
Chapter XXIV. The Chariot of the Pit
Chapter XXV. Sacrifice
Chapter XXVI. Tommy
Chapter XXVII. Bastin Discovers a Resemblance
NOTE By J. R. Bickley, M.R.C.S.