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 ...
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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 th...
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H. Rider Haggard brought more of the world into Victorian homes than almost any other author, yet Haggard was technically not a travel writer. Instead, he fused his extensive travels with fiction and ...
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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 fantas...
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"I always got along with creative people," said Judith Regan, the 54-year old former book publisher who has brought a $100 million lawsuit against News Corporation, its book publishing division Ha...
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The sheets were blue and white, I remember, and smelled lightly of l’Air du Temps. The mattress was on the floor and I was flat on my back looking up, admiring my girlfriend as she stood admi...
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There was this girl who sat behind me in third grade. She had unruly blonde hair that hung down to her shoulders, steady green eyes, and tiny teeth, and I thought she was beautiful. During class, I...
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The "he said/she said" debate was a historic first face-off between the first viable African-American and the first viable female candidate for president. But forget the history for a moment. Ask y...
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A woman accused of killing her autistic daughter testified Friday that she attempted to suffocate the 3-year-old with a pillow three days before she succeeded with a plastic garbage bag.Karen McCar...
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When Master Sgt. Letitia Whitaker landed at Kirkuk Air Base during the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, it all had a horror-flick feel. It was the middle of the night. She could see bright ligh...
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The prosecution's key witness in the trial of a man accused of being Canada's worst serial killer testified Monday that she walked into the barn of the suspect's farm to find him smeared in blood n...
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Carrie Chapman Catt was challenging the status quo from the start.She rejected the limitations society placed upon women, such as not being allowed to vote. "How is it possible," Catt (1859-1947) a...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton likes to say she was born in the middle of the country at the middle of the century, in a Chicago suburb that defined a childhood out of "Father Knows Best" or "Ozzie and Har...
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H(enry) Rider Haggard
If She Did It
