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  • The Ghost Kings
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    The Zulus about here have a strange story of a white girl who in Dingaan’s day was supposed to ’hold the spirit’ of some legendary goddess of theirs who is also white. This girl, they say, was very beautiful and brave, and had great power in the land before the battle of the Blood River, which they fought with the emigrant Boers. Her title was Lady of the Zulus, or more shortly...
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    29,81 €

  • Pearl-Maiden by H. Rider Haggard, Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    Miriam is a Christian during a time when the Romans are feeding Christians to the lions. She is brought up by the Essenes for her parents died before she was a year old. There, she hides from the Romans, learning what the Essenes taught her in language and in arts. It turns out that she has a great talent for sculpture. And when a Roman named Marcus comes to investigate a murde...
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    16,54 €

  • Allan’s Wife and Others by H. Rider Haggard, Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    During his years in Africa, it’s said Haggard came to know and appreciate Zulu culture -- intimately, as it were. It’s said he had an affair with an African woman and not just any sort of an affair, but the sort of affair that makes men mutter in retrospect about profound relationships. That’s the tale they tell on Haggard: that affair changed his portrayal of women. Even the p...
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    12,00 €

  • She and Allan by H. Rider Haggard, Fiction, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    Wanting to learn if he can communicate with deceased loved ones, adventurer and trader Allan Quartermain seeks a meeting with the feared Zulu witch-doctor Zikali, who tells Allan to seek out a great white sorceress who rules a hidden kingdom far to the north and he charges Allan to take a message to her. He also gives Allan a necklace with a strange amulet, carved in Zikali’s o...
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    15,82 €

  • King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    Curtis, Allan Quatermain, and Captain John Good nearly die of thirst in the desert, nearly freeze to death on the mountains, and nearly get killed in a massive civil war in Kukuanaland -- and finally make it to King Solomon’s mine, where Gagool, the evil witch doctor seals them in. . . . Don’t miss this book, or our heroes may never escape! ...
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    12,77 €

  • Benita, an African Romance
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    Beautiful, beautiful was that night! No air that stirred; the black smoke from the funnels of the mail steamer Zanzibar lay low over the surface of the sea like vast, floating ostrich plumes that vanished one by one in the starlight. Benita Beatrix Cliffo ...
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    30,48 €

  • Child of Storm
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    We white people think that we know everything. For instance, we think that we understand human nature. And so we do, as human nature appears to us, with all its trappings and accessories seen dimly through the glass of our conventions, leaving out those a ...
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    30,28 €

  • Eric Brighteyes
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    There lived a man in the south, before Thangbrand, Wilibald’s son, preached the White Christ in Iceland. He was named Eric Brighteyes, Thorgrimur’s son, and in those days there was no man like him for strength, beauty and daring, for in all these things h ...
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    30,00 €

  • The Ancient Allan
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two exceptions perhaps) of all the experiences which it has amused me to employ my idle hours in recording here in a strange land, for after all England is strange to me. I grow elderly. I have, a ...
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    30,37 €

  • The World’s Desire
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    Across the wide backs of the waves, beneath the mountains, and between the islands, a ship came stealing from the dark into the dusk, and from the dusk into the dawn. The ship had but one mast, one broad brown sail with a star embroidered on it in gold; h ...
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    30,40 €

  • The Ivory Child
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the story of what was, perhaps, one of the strangest of all the adventures which have befallen me in the course of a life that so far can scarcely be called tame or humdrum. Amongst many other things it tells of the wa ...
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    30,11 €

  • Allan and the Holy Flower
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    I do not suppose that anyone who knows the name of Allan Quatermain would be likely to associate it with flowers, and especially with orchids. Yet as it happens it was once my lot to take part in an orchid hunt of so remarkable a character that I think it ...
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    29,98 €

  • Allan Quatermain
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    ’I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud, and my heart is broken. It is very hard having only one son to lose him thus, but God’s will be done. Who am I that I should complain? The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggern ...
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    30,21 €

  • Elissa
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    The sun, which shone upon a day that was gathered to the past some three thousand years ago, was setting in full glory over the expanses of south-eastern Africa-the Libya of the ancients. Its last burning rays fell upon a cavalcade of weary men, who, toge ...
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    30,76 €

  • Moon of Israel
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    This is the story of me, Ana the scribe, son of Meri, and of certain of the days that I have spent upon the earth. These things I have written down now that I am very old in the reign of Rameses, the third of that name, when Egypt is once more strong and ...
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    30,33 €

  • Red Eve
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    They knew nothing of it in England or all the Western countries in those days before Crecy was fought, when the third Edward sat upon the throne. There was none to tell them of the doom that the East, whence come light and life, death and the decrees of G ...
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    30,19 €

  • Beatrice
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    The autumn afternoon was fading into evening. It had been cloudy weather, but the clouds had softened and broken up. Now they were lost in slowly darkening blue. The sea was perfectly and utterly still. It seemed to sleep, but in its sleep it still waxed ...
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    30,05 €

  • Ayesha
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    Hard on twenty years have gone by since that night of Leo’s vision-the most awful years, perhaps, which were ever endured by men-twenty years of search and hardship ending in soul-shaking wonder and amazement. My death is very near to me, and of this ...
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    29,98 €

  • Jess
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    The day had been very hot even for the Transvaal, where the days still know how to be hot in the autumn, although the neck of the summer is broken-especially when the thunder-storms hold off for a week or two, as they do occasionally. Even the succulent b ...
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    30,11 €

  • Fair Margaret
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    It was a spring afternoon in the sixth year of the reign of King Henry VII. of England. There had been a great show in London, for that day his Grace opened the newly convened Parliament, and announced to his faithful people-who received the news with muc ...
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    30,11 €

  • Love Eternal
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    More than thirty years ago two atoms of the eternal Energy sped forth from the heart of it which we call God, and incarnated themselves in the human shapes that were destined to hold them for a while, as vases hold perfumes, or goblets wine, or as sparks ...
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    30,19 €

  • Morning Star
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    It was evening in Egypt, thousands of years ago, when the Prince Abi, governor of Memphis and of great territories in the Delta, made fast his ship of state to a quay beneath the outermost walls of the mighty city of Uast or Thebes, which we moderns know ...
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    30,40 €

  • Benita, an African Romance
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    Beautiful, beautiful was that night! No air that stirred; the black smoke from the funnels of the mail steamer Zanzibar lay low over the surface of the sea like vast, floating ostrich plumes that vanished one by one in the starlight. Benita Beatrix Cliffo ...
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    34,22 €

  • Child of Storm
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    We white people think that we know everything. For instance, we think that we understand human nature. And so we do, as human nature appears to us, with all its trappings and accessories seen dimly through the glass of our conventions, leaving out those a ...
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    34,03 €

  • Eric Brighteyes
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    There lived a man in the south, before Thangbrand, Wilibald’s son, preached the White Christ in Iceland. He was named Eric Brighteyes, Thorgrimur’s son, and in those days there was no man like him for strength, beauty and daring, for in all these things h ...
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    33,74 €

  • Fair Margaret
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    It was a spring afternoon in the sixth year of the reign of King Henry VII. of England. There had been a great show in London, for that day his Grace opened the newly convened Parliament, and announced to his faithful people-who received the news with muc ...
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    33,85 €

  • Love Eternal
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    More than thirty years ago two atoms of the eternal Energy sped forth from the heart of it which we call God, and incarnated themselves in the human shapes that were destined to hold them for a while, as vases hold perfumes, or goblets wine, or as sparks ...
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    33,92 €

  • Morning Star
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    It was evening in Egypt, thousands of years ago, when the Prince Abi, governor of Memphis and of great territories in the Delta, made fast his ship of state to a quay beneath the outermost walls of the mighty city of Uast or Thebes, which we moderns know ...
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    34,13 €

  • The Ancient Allan
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two exceptions perhaps) of all the experiences which it has amused me to employ my idle hours in recording here in a strange land, for after all England is strange to me. I grow elderly. I have, a ...
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    34,10 €

  • Red Eve
    H. Rider Haggard / HRider Haggard
    They knew nothing of it in England or all the Western countries in those days before Crecy was fought, when the third Edward sat upon the throne. There was none to tell them of the doom that the East, whence come light and life, death and the decrees of G ...
    Disponible

    33,92 €


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