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Colonel Quaritch, V.C.
Henry Rider Haggard
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This is the tale of an ancient family’s struggles to survive, one woman’s selflessness and another’s evil schemes; Two Gentlemen, two scoundrels and one very underestimated, loyal servant.
This is the tale of an ancient family’s struggles to survive, one woman’s selflessness and another’s evil schemes; Two Gentlemen, two scoundrels and one very underestimated, loyal servant.
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Colonel Quaritch is well written, with fairly interesting characters and plots, but just a few pages in we’re told the main conflict and extremely heavy hints - to the point of a spoiler - at how it will be resolved, which is completely ignored until the very end; imagine if Vader’s cape said “Skywa
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