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Name: H(enry) Rider Haggard
Variant Name: H(enry) Rider Haggard, Henry Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Sir H(enry) Rider Haggard, (Sir) H(enry) Rider Haggard
Birth Date: June 22, 1856
Death Date: May 14, 1925
Nationality: British, South African, English
Gender: Male

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Biography of H(enry) Rider Haggard
6,509 words, approx. 22 pages
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...
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Biography of H(enry) Rider Haggard
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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 fantasy for his fourth and fifth books, King Solomon's...
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Biography of H(enry) Rider Haggard
3,346 words, approx. 11 pages
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...
 


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Sir Henry Rider Haggard (June 22, 1856 – May 14, 1925), born in Bradenham, Norfolk, England, was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in locations considered exotic by readers in his native England. Sourced You lie; you always were a liar, and...


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Haggard, Sir H(Enry) Rider
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(born June 22, 1856, Bradenham, Norfolk, Eng.—died May 14, 1925, London) British novelist. After holding a series of official posts in South Africa (1875–81), he began writing stories set in Africa. Of his 34 colourful adventure novels, the...


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National Review
Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire: A Biography.
03/07/1994: 1,015 words, approx. 3 pages
Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire: A Biography, by Tom Pocock (Trafalgar Square, 263 pp., $45) NADA THE LILY begat The Jungle Book, which begat Tarzan of the Apes; each author, that is, was prompted by an earlier tale of a hero...
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The Independent - London
TravelEtc.: Grand tours - Diamonds are a genre's best friend The world's greatest writers on their adventures in literature. This week, H Rider Haggard's ripping African yarn
10/07/2001: 757 words, approx. 3 pages
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was born in Norfolk, and went on to more or less invent the Ripping Yarn. At the age of 19, Haggard went to South Africa to take up the post of secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer, then governor of...
 


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