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H. Rider Haggard

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Henry Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925) là một trong những nhà văn nổi tiếng trong lịch sử văn học Anh. Những tác phẩm nổi tiếng với những tình tiết ly kỳ, hấp dẫn của ông được đông đảo bạn đọc khắp nơi trên thế giới yêu thích và tìm đọc.

Chính từ những cuộc phiêu lưu từ thơ ấu đã giúp cho ông có được kinh nghiệm quý báu trong mảng văn học này. Vào năm 1875, với tư cách là thư ký riêng của Toàn quyền Anh tại thuộc địa Natan, bản thân ông đã trực tiếp gặp không ít cuộc phiêu lưu mạo hiểm, và chính những cuộc mạo hiểm này đã tạo cho ông nguồn cảm hứng để viết tiểu thuyết Kho Báu Của Vua Salomon. Cuốn tiểu thuyết nhanh chóng thu hút và lôi cuốn được độc giả bởi chuyến phiêu lưu kỳ thú. Tên tuổi của ông đã đi xa khỏi biên giới nước Anh và đến với hầu hết các bạn đọc trên thế giới.

Tác phẩm Kho Báu Của Vua Salomon được coi là “tiểu thuyết thuộc địa” rất phổ biến tại văn học Tây Âu những năm cuối thế kỷ XIX, đầu thế kỷ XX. Trong tác phẩm, ông đã giúp những người bản xứ, những người thời đó bị coi là “mọi đen” lên án sự áp bức bóc lột của tộc người da trắng. Ngay từ trang đầu ông đã viết: “Trong đời, tôi đã gặp nhiều mọi đen. Không, tôi xin xoá chữ ấy, tôi không thích dùng nó. Tôi đã gặp nhiều người bản xứ thực sự là những người tử tế, đáng kính. Tôi cũng biết không ít những người da trắng đểu cáng, tồi tệ và chẳng bao giờ là người tử tế, dù họ có rất nhiều tiền…”.

Hunter Quatermain's Story

Hunter Quatermain's Story

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"Sir Henry Curtis, as everybody acquainted with him knows, is one of the most hospitable men on earth. It was in the course of the enjoyment of his hospitality at his place in Yorkshire the other day that I heard the hunting story which I am now about to transcribe. Many of those who read it will no doubt have heard some of the strange rumours that are flying about to the effect that Sir Henry...
Finished

Finished

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The third installment in H. Rider Haggard's Zulu trilogy, Finished is a detailed historical account of the decline of the once-mighty Zulu nation, recounted from the perspective of globe-trotting adventurer Allan Quatermain. From the thrill of the safari to battlefield play-by-plays, this novel will not disappoint fans of the classic action-adventure genre.
Child of Storm

Child of Storm

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Child of Storm is a 1913 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. The plot is set in 1854-56 and concerns Quatermain hunting in Zululand and getting involved with Mameema, a beautiful African girl who causes great turmoil in the Zulu kingdom. The novel is the second in a trilogy by Haggard involving the collapse of the Zulu kingdom and featuring the dwarf Zikali. The first book is...
Allan and the Holy Flower

Allan and the Holy Flower

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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

Montezuma's Daughter

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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...
Allan's Wife

Allan's Wife

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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...
The People of the Mist

The People of the Mist

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The People of the Mist is a classic lost race fantasy novel written by H. Rider Haggard. It was first published serially in the weekly magazine Tit-Bits, between December 1893 and August 1894; the first edition in book form was published in London by Longmans in October, 1894. The work's importance was recognized in December, 1973, by its revival by Ballantine Books as the sixty-third paperback...
Cleopatra

Cleopatra

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Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis is a novel written by the author H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's Mines and She. The book was first printed in 1889. The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of Ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. The main character Harmachis (the living...
The Ancient Allan

The Ancient Allan

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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...
She and Allan

She and Allan

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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...
Ayesha, the Return of She

Ayesha, the Return of She

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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...
Allan Quatermain

Allan Quatermain

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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...
She

She

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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...
King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines

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King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre. Allan...

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