The complete online text of Black Heart and White Heart 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...

THOSE clever people in BBC2's publicity department did marvellously well to organise such a sweltering week for the launch of their summer series about Africa. Talk about method viewing. As the week wore on, it was easy to imagine that you were watching from...

At Laura's Cafe, the patrons are both black and white and the black owners, Harold and Dorothy Broussard, want to keep it that way. So while serving up mounds of red beans, rice and fried chicken, they try to cajole Don Breaux, one of...