The complete online text of Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch 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...

Dutch novel tells tale of bigotry Getting to heart of racism By BILL CAMPBELL Special to the Journal Sentinel Sunday, December 3, 2000 Americans think of racism as an American problem. We have a long and inglorious history of...

I READ a short story once in which an old master a Rembrandt was discove red in an attic and a huge argument ensued among experts about whether such a treasure could possibly have lain undiscovered for centuries and actually be genuine. Then,...