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...
Action man and teller of tales HUNTER QUATERMAIN'S STORY: THE UNCOLLECTED ADVENTURES OF ALLAN QUATERMAIN by H. Rider Haggard, selected by Peter Haining Peter Owen, £12.50, pp. 256, ISBN 0720611822 The other day I came on an old exerisc book dating from the...
SPECIAL EDITION VIEWS The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Fox, color, PG-13, 110 min. plus supplements, Dolby Digital 5.1, widescreen, $27.98, Street: Dec. 16; First Run: W, July 2003, $66 mil. The premise of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is wonderfully imaginative:...
