Three Adventure Novels: She, King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain Paperback - 1951
by Haggard, H. Rider
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Details
- Title Three Adventure Novels: She, King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain
- Author Haggard, H. Rider
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Unabridged
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 656
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, New York
- Date 1951-06-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # NC03A-01201
- ISBN 9780486206431 / 0486206432
- Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 7.99 x 5.41 x 1.25 in (20.29 x 13.74 x 3.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Adventure and adventurers, Adventure fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
Haggard had lived for many years among primitive peoples in Africa, and his knowledge of the Dark Continent was matched by few men. Yet beyond his personal knowledge of Africa, his experience of savage life and wild lands, and his faculty for making us believe impossible tales―lies a feeling for the supernatural. Adventure alone was not enough for Haggard. As he said, The thing must have a heart; mere adventures are not enough―I can turn them out by the peck. About She, one of the great mythical creations of the late 19th century, he said, The only clear notion that I had was that of an immortal woman inspired by immortal love . . . and it came―it came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down. Kipling simply said, You did not write 'She, ' you know. Something wrote it through you.
His novels have been called parables, asking What are science, learning, and consciousness of knowledge and power, in the face of Omnipotence? They have been called romance. And they have been called excitingly alive and imaginative by almost everyone who has ever picked up a volume, from R. L. Stevenson to George Orwell.
Do any of the moderns equal H. Rider Haggard as spinners of suspense yarns?―Los Angeles Times Haggard could spin a yarn so full of suspense and color that you couldn't put the story down.―Washington Post Complete unabridged texts of She, King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain.