Sir Henry Rider Haggard was not a great artist in anyone's estimation, least of all his own. Still less was he a great writer of short fiction; one seeks in vain for his name in critical surveys of the short story of the nineteenth or early twentieth cen...
A man of diverse talents and a writer eager to try his skills at many different kinds of writing projects, both nonfiction and fiction, H. Rider Haggard is best remembered by general readers of fantasy for his fourth and fifth books, King Solomon's Mines...
Henry Rider Haggard, K.B.E., wrote tales of romantic adventure which may be termed "mysteries" only in a nonconventional sense of the term. The reader encounters no Poirots, no Lord Peter Wimseys, no clues; and while there are murders aplenty, they are n...
Allan's Wife & Other Tales is a collection of Allan Quatermain stories by H. Rider Haggard, first published in London by Spencer Blackett in December, 1889. The title story was new, with its first publication intended for the collection, but two...
THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT AND OTHER CLINICAL TALES. By Oliver Sacks. Summit. 233 pp. $15.95. Orders of Wisdom Mostly, it doesn't matter that our physiology consists of cranky evolutionary compromises and is liable, like all overdesigned machinery,...
The man seen by many as the towering moral giant of post-war Germany has arrived back in the headlines, just 15 months after his death. But few of those who were closest to him feel happy about the way in which Willy Brandt's name...
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