When the World Shook

When The World Shook

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Haggard, Sir H Rider

Fantasy

BiblioLife

She and Allan

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The Saga of Eric Brighteyes - A Book That Inspired Tolkien: With Original Illustrations (Professor's Bookshelf)

<p>THE SAGA OF ERIC BRIGHTEYES -  A BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN. With Original Illustrations.With Original Illustrations. Rider Haggard is among a small selection of Victorian and Edwardian writers whom Professor J.R.R. Tolkien acknowledged by name. Tolkien once enthused in an interview that Eric Brighteyes was "as good as most sagas and as heroic." Haggard s classic is an action-packed adventure filled with Viking feasts duels, battles on land and sea, romance, treachery, magic, beautiful women and brave heroes. Haggard writes that Eric was strong and great of stature, his hair was yellow as gold, and his grey eyes shone with the light of swords. This could be a sentence from The Lord of the Rings. For both authors, landscape plays as important a part as any character, and is described in concise yet evocative language. Haggard plunges his readers among the dizzying precipices, waterfalls, fast flowing rivers, icy winters and stormy seas of his fantastic Iceland, much as Tolkien sweeps us into Middle-Earth. Lancelot Speed, whose striking images enrich this volume, was a highly accomplished and prolific fantasy illustrator during Tolkien's lifetime. He illuminated many titles Tolkien is known to have read, and there is no doubt Tolkien was familiar with his vibrant drawings. A dwarf-forged sword wrested from Barrow Dwellers, its bright blade engraved with runes; the appellation: Ring-giver; poetry and song; a hero with grey eyes - these and many more resemblances of style and content exist between Haggard's classic tale and The Lord of the Rings.</p>

Quillpen Pty Ltd T/A Leaves of Gold Press

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Ayesha the Return of She

Kessinger Publishing

Queen Sheba's Ring

Literary

Historical Adventures: 4-Lysbeth: A Tale of the Dutch

The final volume in this classic Haggard Historical fiction collectionThere are few who have heard of H. Rider Haggard's novels who do not know his principal character-Allan Quatermain-the archetypal white man in Africa. Here was a hero who would take on a Zulu Impi, a charging rhinoceros, a giant gorilla God, a lost tribe, slavers, a magical eternal queen, malign spirits and still come back for more-bringing a host of readers with him. In short, Haggard knew what it took to write a good adventure which is why some of his books have been among the most popular in modern times. Haggard was a prolific author: aside from the Quatermain stories, he produced a sequence of novels concerning the ancient world, four featuring his other great character, Ayesha-'She who must be obeyed'-and a collection of adventure novels taking Africa as their stage but without the presence of Quatermain. All are excellent. In Haggard's lifetime his public eagerly awaited his next book, but today, while many are aware of his reputation, that knowledge often applies to but a small proportion of the reading enjoyment his books have to offer. Fortunately Leonaur now publish most of these works in matching sets at great value by combining two or more novels in each volume. Now Leonaur is pleased to offer Haggard's historical adventure series. Predictably Haggard's inventive pen was able to create several more lead characters of the stamp of Quatermain and they populate many of the ages of history with gripping adventures set against momentous events in many lands.The final volume of this four volume Leonaur collection contains a single substantial novel, Lysbeth: A Tale of the Dutch. It is the time of 'The Eight Years War,' a religious conflict raging in the Low Countries as Spain sought to dominate the region with influence and religion. Set principally between the years 1571-74 this colourful tale embraces the sieges of Haarlem and Leyden. This is a gripping story of a young Dutch heroine and her cousin in a time of war, rebellion, pestilence and the shadow of the scaffold in the time of the Emperor Charles V.

Genre Fiction

Leonaur Ltd

Classic Book for the Kindle: She and Allan by Henry Rider HaggardSir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (June 22,1856 - May 14, 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.**********************************We are pleased to offer thousands of books for the Kindle, including thousands of hard-to-find literature and classic fiction books. Click on our Editor Name (eBook-Ventures) next to the book title above to view all of the titles that are currently available.**********************************

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Amereon Limited

A History of the Transvaal

History

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Legare Street Press

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Haggard, Sir Henry Rider

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