THE RETURN OF SHE
By H. Rider Haggard
“Here ends this history so far
as it concerns science and the outside world.
What its end will be as regards Leo and myself is
more than I can guess.&...
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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 ...
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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 th...
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H. Rider Haggard brought more of the world into Victorian homes than almost any other author, yet Haggard was technically not a travel writer. Instead, he fused his extensive travels with fiction and ...
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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 fantas...
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Pakistan's government has relaxed restrictions on disgraced
nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan that were imposed in 2004 after
he confessed to having proliferated nuclear technology to North...
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Islamabad (dpa) - The government of Pakistan has called off the
launch of a potentially compromising book documenting the
multi-billion-dollar business interests of the mili...
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Islamabad (dpa) - The author of a new book documenting the multi-
billion-dollar business interests of the Pakistani military under
President Pervez Musharraf claimed Saturd...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH DENIAL BY FOREIGN OFFICE IN 7TH-8TH GRAPHS)
Pakistan's government has relaxed restrictions on disgraced
nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan that were imposed in 2004 after...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumers will pay 11
percent more for the traditional Thanksgiving meal this year,
due in part to higher energy costs, the American Farm Bureau
Federation said on Thur...
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BALTIMORE (Reuters) - President Bush
reflected on his battle with alcohol abuse Tuesday,
acknowledging that he once drank too much, as he sought to
showcase the religious-based programs that have ...
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Five judges resigned Monday and hundreds of lawyers demonstrated to protest President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's removal of Pakistan's chief justice, deepening a political crisis for the military lead...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jose Cagliardo of Santiago,
Chile, visited Manhattan on business recently, but he would
have avoided the trip -- and the hassles of tight U.S. security
measures -- altogethe...
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Worried students, flustered tourists and nervous taxi drivers in Thailand's capital struggled Wednesday to make sense of a coup that had been staged while they slept.
But Bangkok's normall...
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Female Islamic students wearing black burqas kidnapped an alleged brothel owner and held her prisoner at their seminary in the Pakistani capital Wednesday, part of an anti-vice drive in defiance of...
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