H. Rider Haggard - Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard

The Complete Works of

H. RIDER HAGGARD

(1856-1925)

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By Delphi Classics, 2015

With thanks to Larry J. Field

Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard

First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Delphi Classics.

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Below is a list of all of the tales that feature Haggards popular hunter hero Allan Quatermain, with the last four titles being short stories, while the rest are considered to be novels. The texts are listed in the narrative chronological order:

Below is a list of the four novels that feature the character Ayesha, in the narrative chronological order:

Bradenham, a village in Norfolk Haggards birthplace

Haggards first novel was published in 1884. Later, in his 1926 autobiography, Haggard explained how he was inspired to write the novel:

Whilst we were at Norwood a little incident occurred which resulted in my becoming a writer of fiction. At the church which my wife and I attended we saw sitting near us one Sunday a singularly beautiful and pure-faced young lady. Afterwards we agreed that this semi-divine creature on whom to the best of my knowledge I have never set eyes again from that day to this ought to become the heroine of a novel. So then and there we took paper, and each of us began to write the said novel. I think that after she had completed two or three folio sheets my wife ceased from her fictional labours. But, growing interested, I continued mine, which resulted in the story called Dawn.

The first edition

Our natures languish incomplete;

Something obtuse in this our star

Shackles the spirits winged feet;

But a glory moves us from afar,

And we know that we are strong and fleet.

Edmund Ollier.

Once more I behold the face of her

Whose actions all had the character

Of an inexpressible charm, expressed;

Whose movements flowed from a centre of rest,

And whose rest was that of a swallow, rife

With the instinct of reposing life;

Whose mirth had a sadness all the while

It sparkled and laughed, and whose sadness lay

In the heaven of such a crystal smile

That you longed to travel the self-same way

To the brightness of sorrow. For round her breathed

A grace like that of the general air,

Which softens the sharp extremes of things,