Генри Райдер Хаггард
Список книг автора Генри Райдер ХаггардОдиссей. Владычица Зари (сборник)
Наверное, никто так сильно не любил свой дом, как Одиссей, сын Лаэрта. Он побывал в неведомых странах, переносился в Царство теней и снов. О первых его странствиях знает весь мир. Но без радости встретила родная земля Одиссея. Дико и пустынно было на берегу дорогого его сердцу острова. О последних, захватывающих воображение и дух приключениях легендарного Скитальца поведает вам эта повесть. Итак… В очередной том Генри Райдера Хаггарда входят два знаменитых романа из истории Древнего мира – «Одиссей» и «Владычица Зари». Книга об Одиссее была написана Хаггардом в соавторстве с переводчиком поэм Гомера, шотландским писателем и историком Эндрю Лэнгом. Впервые этот замечательный роман публикуется на русском языке без сокращений и в новом переводе.
Перстень царицы Савской (сборник)
Доктор Адамс оправляется вглубь Центральной Африки, чтобы спасти сына, которого держат в плену дикари жестокого племени. На помощь приходит старый друг – профессор-археолог Хиггс. Его привлекает возможность найти и разгадать загадки древности. Также в экспедицию отправляются капитан Орм и сержант Квик. Четверых британцев ждут неизведанные земли, поиски затерянного царства Мур, знакомство с горным народом абати, которым правит великолепная и отважная женщина, носящая титул Дочь царей. Неужели она – наследница царицы Савской? Какую тайну скрывают старинные письмена на ее перстне? И поможет ли древний талисман народу абати и его правительнице избежать страшной опасности?.. Также в книгу вошла повесть «Черное сердце и Белое сердце».
She: A History of Adventure
She is the story of Cambridge professor Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey, and their journey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. The journey is triggered by a mysterious package left to Leo by his father, to be opened on his 25th birthday; the package contains an ancient shard of pottery and several documents, suggesting an ancient mystery about the Vincey family. Holly and Leo eventually arrive in eastern Africa where they encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen, Ayesha, who reigns as the all-powerful «She» or "She-who-must-be-obeyed".
Queen of the Dawn: A Love Tale of Old Egypt
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. Queen of the Dawn is about the overthrow of the Hyksos and reinstatement of the rightful pharaonic line.
Mary of Marion Isle
When the ship that Andrew and Clara are on, en route to Oceania, founders after striking an iceberg in the south Indian Ocean, and Andrew fetches up, with his manservant, on the desolate Marion Island, around 1,500 miles southeast of the Cape of Good Hope. It is there that Andrew finds the true love of his life, Mary, who had been shipwrecked on the island some 15 years before and who had been living there alone.
Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain
The youthful Allan Quatermain is bound for strange adventures, in the company of the ill-fated Pieter Retief and the Boer Commission, on an embassy to the Zulu despot, Dingaan. Yet he is bound, too, for one of the deepest romances of his life – for in Marie he tells of his courtship and marriage to his first wife, Marie Marais.
Joan Haste
The author of adventures as King Solomon’s Mines and She turns to domestic drama in this romance. Joan is a shop girl of illegitimate birth a single mother at the same time. Torn from the love of country-dwelling Captain Henry Graves, Joan endures exile with a Dickensian London family, and pursuit by a Victorian-era stalker.
Elissa: or The Doom of Zimbabwe
In Elissa Henry Rider Haggard takes his readers to the Phoenician city in South Central Africa the mysterious ruins of which have been the subject of so much speculation and research in the recent past. A trading town, protected by vast fortifications and adorned with many temples dedicated to the gods of the Sidonians, was built by civilized men in the heart of Africa may not be accurately known, but there is ample room for speculation as to the life of the ancient city, and in this romance the author has tried to picture incidents such as might have accompanied the first extinction of Zimbabwe.
Dr. Therne
A confessional narrative from a mad scientist Dr. Therne obsessed with one of the great issues of his day… in this case, vaccination against epidemic diseases like smallpox. His personal fears meet the tragic legacy of other doctors’ careless ignorance and spawn a malignant crusade against vaccination that will ultimately create many more victims. Henry Rider Haggard writes to alarm and educate his public, and creates a very engaging villain to carry his message.
Dawn
Philip Caresfoot is all but promised to marry the local heiress, Maria Lee. They are both to inherit small fortunes in their own right. And thus their marriages to each other would make an ever wealthier household. However, when Hilda, a noblewoman with no wealth of her own, arrives in town to become Maria's companion, Philip begins to fall in love with her. They have an affair when Philip is sent away to Oxford and they marry in secret. When Philip returns to his home, his father inquires about his relationship with Maria Lee. Philip tells him that Maria Lee and himself are engaged. How will he keep all his lies together and still inherit the land and money from his father?