The complete online text of Fair Margaret 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...

Deafeated, Napoleon died in exile. Victorious, the British named countless roads, edifices, squares and other public works after the battle that ended Napoleon's career. The most famous commemorative structure is London's Waterloo Bridge, which spans the Thames between Somerset House on the Victoria Embankment,...

Byline: Trudi Hahn; Staff Writer Magic was Margaret Midland's favorite word. Her idea always was to add a little magic to whatever creative endeavor was taking place, said Alfred Nott, a creative collaborator with Midland for 30 years. Midland, owner...