The complete online text of Jess 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...

Hollywood offers a new spin on the legend of Jesse James when "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," starring Brad Pitt as James, opens Sept. 21.If the movie sparks your interest in the famous outlaw, there are plenty of places in...

On a day when the Times rewrites our Rupert-and-Hillary romance (two months late, but thanks for the plug!), the Post (whose idea of giving credit to another source is "it emerged") eschews the meta and puts out a special collectors-edition issue that shows why, love...

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said Thursday he's backing Democrat Barack Obama in his presidential bid, giving his support to a new generation of black politicians. "He has my vote," the Rev. Jackson told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.Jackson sought the Democratic presidential...

While news about Jesse James crawled its way across 19th century America _ compared to today's lightning-fast Internet _ the tone was uncannily comparable to today's celebrity coverage, Brad Pitt found in reading those old accounts."I will say, I was surprised to see how tabloid...