The complete online text of Cleopatra 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...

Joseph L. Mankiewicz's "Cleopatra" (1963) died when Rex Harrison's Caesar died. It was an expensive ($40 million) disaster, one that almost sank the studio that made it, 20th Century-Fox. But somehow the very magnitude of the catastrophe -- it was Hollywood's version of the...

"Everybody had her wrong -- Shakespeare, Shaw, and Elizabeth Taylor," says Robert Halmi Sr., on the phone from Spain. "Her," of course, is the incendiary subject of his new miniseries, "Cleopatra," airing Sunday and Monday nights at 9 on Channels 5, 6 and 9....