Böcker av Sir H Rider Haggard

"In the historical romance The Virgin of the Sun, the Englishman Hubert de Hastings travels to Peru during the fourteenth-century. There he witnesses Incan civilization, tours Machu Picchu and falls in love with the Incan princess Quilla. Haggard had invented the plot of VS in 1891 as an alternative to the one used in Montezuma's Daughter." -visualhaggard.org

This collection of short stories includes three which feature Allan Quatermain, the hero of King Solomon's Mines and other classic novels ("Long Odds," "Hunter Quatermain's Story," and "A Tale of Three Lions") as well as two bonus stories ("The Mahatma and the Hare," "Black Heart and White Heart").

If Haggard -- one of the greatest adventure writers of all time -- is remembered now, it is for his novels featuring Allan Quatermain, a heroic adventurer whose exploits in Africa form the most important sequence of Haggard's books. Quatermain's adventures are chronicled in such novels as "King Solomon's Mines," "Allan Quaterman," "She," and 11 others. However, despite the importance of the Quaterman books, many of Haggard's other novels are interesting in their own right. "Nada the Lily" is the first of four books about the Zulus, all of which are excellent. "Eric Brighteyes" is rich, fantasy-laden Icelandic saga. "The World's Desire" (written with Andrew Lang) is a fantasy about the characters in "The Odyssey." And there are numerous other titles (many of them reprinted by Wildside Press as part of the Wildside Fantasy Classics series) which bring undeservingly lost Haggard books back into print. "Mr. Meeson's Will" is just such a book. Here we get a glimpse of what H. Rider Haggard must have gone through as a starting author, as he slyly takes the reader inside the British publishing industry, where greed and hack writers (he calls them "tame writers") are prominent. One can easily see how writers of the day could be ruined by publishers as ruthless and unscrupulous as Mr. Meeson. Luckily Haggard could call upon his years of legal training in search of the appropriate remedy for his heroine's tragic plight!

Eric Brighteyes by H. Rider Haggard is a classic Viking saga set in medieval Iceland. The novel follows the heroic yet tragic life of Eric, a bold and honorable warrior, as he navigates love, betrayal, and the challenges of fate. Eric is torn between his love for two women, Gudruda the Fair and Swanhild the Witch, while also facing dangerous enemies and harsh environments. Rich with Norse mythology and legendary adventure, this novel is one of Haggard's most gripping tales of love, loyalty, and destiny.

This collection of short stories includes three which feature Allan Quatermain, the hero of King Solomon's Mines and other classic novels ("Long Odds," "Hunter Quatermain's Story," and "A Tale of Three Lions") as well as two bonus stories ("The Mahatma and the Hare," "Black Heart and White Heart").

"Standing a while ago upon the flower-clad plain above Tiberius, by the Lake of Galilee, the writer gazed at the double peaks of the Hill of Hattin. Here, or so tradition says, Christ preached the Sermon on the Mount--that perfect rule of gentleness and peace. Here, too--and this is certain--after nearly twelve centuries had gone by, Yusuf Salah-ed-din, whom we know as the Sultan Saladin, crushed the Christian power in Palestine in perhaps the most terrible battle which that land of blood has known. Thus the Mount of the Beatitudes became the Mount of Massacre. Whilst musing on these strangely-contrasted scenes enacted in one place there arose in his mind a desire to weave, as best he might, a tale wherein any who are drawn to the romance of that pregnant and mysterious epoch, when men by thousands were glad to lay down their lives for visions and spiritual hopes, could find a picture, however faint and broken, of the long war between Cross and Crescent waged among the Syrian plains and deserts. Of Christian knights and ladies also, and their loves and sufferings in England and the East; of the fearful lord of the Assassins whom the Franks called Old Man of the Mountain, and his fortress city, Masyaf. Of the great-hearted, if at times cruel Saladin and his fierce Saracens; of the rout at Hattin itself, on whose rocky height the Holy Rood was set up as a standard and captured, to be seen no more by Christian eyes; and of the Iast surrender, whereby the Crusaders lost Jerusalem forever. Of that desire this story is the fruit." -- H. Rider Haggard

The famous ruins in Zimbabwe suggested this story to Haggard, in which he makes this "lost city" the Biblical Ophir, said to have fallen because of the wickedness of its religion and people. As always, a rousing story in Haggard's finest style.

"Allan Quatermain and Lady Luna Ragnall team up in The Ancient Allan, an adventure that continues Allan and the Holy Flower (1915) and The Ivory Child (1916). Under the influence of the magical herb taduki, Ragnall and Quatermain experience a shared past life as lovers in ancient Egypt." -visualhaggard.org

Moon of Israel (1918) was one of the earliest Haggard books to be filmed (in 1924, as a silent movie directed by Michael Curtiz). The movie adaptation has been released both as Moon of Israel and The Slave Queen. Interestingly, Paramount bought the original film and suppressed it so it wouldn?t complete with the release of DeMille?s original silent version of The Ten Commandments. As a book, it is an exceptional retelling of the Biblical story of the Exodus. I?m certain most modern readers will be familiar with the original story. By selecting an unlikely viewpoint character?the scribe Ana?Haggard provides a down-to-earth narrator for a story of fantastic proportion. The novel was first serialized in The Cornhill Magazine from January through October in 1918 and released in book for in October 1918. Author and critic Jessica Amanda Salmonson has called Moon of Israel ?a beautifully written Jewish legend,? and adds, ?Haggard was pro-Zionist advocating a Jewish homeland in Palestine as early as 1915.?

The tale of Allan Quatermain's second wife, Stella, is also a classic fantasy African adventure, complete with magic and ghosts, plus Haggard's trademark gripping narrative style.

Allan and the Ice Gods 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, The Ivory Child, and The Ancient Allan. Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic taduki drug, as he did in previous novels, and he gets to see a previous incarnation?

"Haggard's two most popular characters, Ayesha and Allan Quatermain, share an adventure in She and Allan. Accompanied by the Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and guided by the witch-doctor Zikali, in this lost world novel Allan and Ayesha join forces to journey to the land of the dead. Told from hunter Quatermain's perspective, the plot of this novel precedes events in Wisdom's Daughter (1923), She (1887), Ayesha (1905), and Allan Quatermain (1887), but they are set after those depicted in Quatermain's adventure novels Marie (1912), Child of Storm (1913), Finished (1917) and King Solomon's Mines (1885)." --visualhaggard.org

The World's Desire begins with Odysseus utterly alone. His kingdom of Ithaca is an empty, abandoned wasteland. His beloved wife Penelope is dead and his patron goddess Athena has forsaken him. But then Aphrodite visits Odysseus and sends him on a quest to find the world's desire, the face that launched a thousand ships: the woman he once knew as Helen of Troy. Armed with his legendary bow, Odysseus's final journey takes him to a court riven by murderous factions, ruled by a queen who is haunted by dreams of Odysseus's face. . .

Belshazzar is a historical novel by H Rider Haggard set in Ancient Babylon, where Egyptian prince Ramose tries to rescue his wife Myra from the King of Babylon.Belshazzar was written in 1924 and had just been completed at the time of Haggard's death. It was published posthumously.