When old Mikolai on his death-bed left Hania to my guardianship and conscience, I was sixteen years of age; she was younger by almost a year, and was also just emerging from childhood. I had to lead her from the bed of her dead grandfather almost by force, and we both went to my father's domestic chapel. The doors of the chapel were open, and before the old Byzantine image of the Mother of God...

The title of this book in the original is Rodzina Polanieckich (The Family of the Polanyetskis); Children of the Soil has been substituted, because of the difficulty of the Polish title for American and English readers, because the Polanyetskis are called children of the soil in the text of the volume, and because all the other characters are children of the soil in the same sense. For most...

Allan and the Holy Flower is a 1915 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. It first appeared serialised in The Windsor Magazine. The plot involves Quatermain going on a trek into Africa to find a mysterious flower. Brother John, who has been wandering in Africa for years, confides to Allan a huge and rare orchid, the largest ever found. Allan arrives to England with the flower and...

Montezuma's Daughter, first published in 1893, is a novel written by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. Narrated in the first person by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman whose adventures include having his mother murdered, a brush with the Spanish Inquisition, shipwreck, and slavery. Eventually, Thomas unwillingly joins a Spanish expedition to New Spain, and the novel tells the...

The Ivory Child is a novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain.

Allan's Wife - The story of Allan Quatermain's wife and further adventures of Allan Quatermain. Allan’s Wife, as the title suggests centers around Quatermain’s life with his wife Stella who is the mother of his son Harry. The story revolves around Allan’s early life before his famous adventures in the heart of Africa and helps flesh out the adventurer as a man before he...

Guillemot là một cậu bé hết sức bình thường, điều khác thường có lẽ là ở tính nhút nhát của cậu và việc cậu đang sinh sống ở một nơi mà rất ít người biết đến: xứ Ys - vùng đất giáp ranh giữa trời và đất. Bước qua cánh cửa...

She — subtitled A History of Adventure — is a novel by H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925), first serialised in The Graphic magazine from October 1886 to January 1887. She is one of the classics of imaginative literature, and one of the best-selling books of all time, with over 83 million copies sold in 44 different languages as of 1965. She was extraordinarily popular upon its release...

Anh Không Là Con Chó Của Em là môt câu chuyện kỳ lạ. Nó có thể là kỳ lạ nhất mà các bạn đọc từ trước tới nay. Chuyện vừa lãng mạn, vừa kinh hãi, vừa kỳ quái lại vừa nghẹt thở. Nó chứng tỏ rằng trong cuộc sống hôm nay bất cứ...

Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence. The character Quatermain is an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader in southern Africa, who supports colonial efforts to spread civilization in the Dark Continent, though he also favours native...

Đã thành một quy luật tự nhiên, từ khi ra đời cho đến khi rời khỏi thế gian, con người vẫn mãi miết dấn thân vào cuộc hành trình tìm kiếm tình yêu và hạnh phúc, dẫu chỉ là trong vô thức. Đó là một cuộc hành trình...

The White Company is a historical adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle set during the Hundred Years' War. The story is set in England, France, and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward, the Black Prince to restore Peter of Castile to the throne of the Kingdom of Castile. The climax of the book occurs before the Battle of Nájera. Doyle became...

Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic-fantasy novel by the popular Victorian author H. Rider Haggard, published in 1905, as a sequel to his far more popular and well known novel, She. It was serialised in the Windsor Magazine in 1904-5. Its significance was recognised by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the fourteenth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy...

Đã thành một quy luật tự nhiên, từ khi ra đời cho đến khi rời khỏi thế gian, con người vẫn mãi miết dấn thân vào cuộc hành trình tìm kiếm tình yêu và hạnh phúc, dẫu chỉ là trong vô thức. Đó là một cuộc hành trình...

The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place in a single room in Challenger's house in Sussex – rather oddly, given that it follows The Lost World, a story set largely outdoors in the wilds of South America. This would be the last story...

She and Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon's Mines. Its significance was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the sixth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in...

Đường Xa Nắng Mới là tập bút ký mới nhất của Tiến sĩ Nguyễn Tường Bách, tập hợp những bài viết ký sự du hành của tác giả đến nhiều xứ sở lạ kỳ trên thế giới. Bắt đầu từ câu chuyện về ngôi làng nhỏ yên bình của mình ở nước...

Songs Of The Road - The second of two poetry collections by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes. This volume consists of narrative and philosophic verses and songs, including his "Bendy's Sermon."

The Ancient Allan is a novel by H Rider Haggard. Sitting beside entrancing Lady Ragnall while the smoke of an ancient Egyptian herb grows thick around them, Allan Quatermain finds himself departing the world he know and entering into his strangest adventure. In a mystic transformation, he comes to his senses in an earlier incarnation... as Shabaka, hunter of lions -- scion of the rulers of...

Không Nơi Nương Tựa - Khát vọng và ý chí tuyệt vời của một em bé trong tận cùng của sự hắt hủi và vùi dập. Không Nơi Nương Tựa là câu chuyện thật của chính tác giả, kể về thời thơ ấu bị vùi dập đau thương của mình - một...