The complete online text of Benita, an African romance by H. Rider Haggard.

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...

Kensington Publishing Corp Sr Editor Monica Harris had the idea of starting a line of romance novels by African American women aimed at this market. Her Arabesque Books is garnering $4.9 mil of Kensington's $50 mil in annual net sales. Monica Harris never...

Amy Diane Prince's English version of Benita introduces us to the remarkable life of the Mexican political activist Benita Galeana. Ilan Stavans's foreword and Elena Poniatowska's introduction contextualize the testimonial nature of Galeana's memoirs, which were originally published in Spanish in 1940. ...