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...
MR. and Mrs. Bridge Softenings Mr. and Mrs. Bridge is based on the two celebrated novels that Evan S. Connell wrote ten years apart. In Mrs. Bridge, he told the story from the point of view of the docile upper-middle-class housewife in...
PARENTS have grown so used to the image of obese children that they are no longer able to tell if their own sons and daughters are overweight, a study has revealed. It found 40 per cent of parents were not concerned about their...
