I love this book, partly because it's so deliciously late-Victorian drama, partly because it came with illustrations! An amusing mystery with a rain-soaked embrace (shocking!) an arranged marriage and buried treasure! What more could one ask for?!

I've read a lot of Rider Haggard. Colonel Quaritch is a little unusual for him, in that it is a third-person narrative that spends a lot of effort developing characters other than the Colonel himself. I enjoyed it but found myself pushing rather quickly through through some of the poetic flights and

Африка Африкой, но и про Англию не следует забывать. Читателю может наскучить внимать за историями, где показывается жизнь, далёкая от обыденности. Либо Хаггард решил испытать, сможет ли он заинтересовать возвращением к уже позабытым им сюжетам, то есть к тем, с которых он некогда начинал. Теперь ег

Another of Haggard's Victorian melodrama/romances. In this case, we have the eponymous Colonel Quaritch, retired to the country at the ripe old age of 44, who is smitten by Ida, the 27 year old daughter (and why isn't she already married at that rather advanced age?) of his neighbor, the Squire de l

Almost 120 years before British author J.K. Rowling faced the pressure and the problem of how to follow a string of phenomenally successful novels, another British writer was faced with the same dilemma. H. Rider Haggard, between the years 1885 and 1887, had come out with four of the most popular no

This is not a typical adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adultery, murder, buried treasure and a love story! The tale of an aristocratic British family’s struggles to survive in the late 19th Century and retain their several hundred year old