The complete online text of Stella Fregelius 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...

FRANK STELLA Paul Kasmin Gallery 293 Tenth Avenue Through May 14 The new black: Brute elegance on an industrial scale When 23-year-old Frank Stella burst onto the scene in 1959, the flinty minimalism of his black stripe paintings was...

38 088 In seinem abgründigen Drama "Young Adam" (fd 36 814) verlieh David Mackenzie den 1950er-Jahren einen ganz speziellen "gothic"- Look. Dunkle Grau- und Blautöne, kaltes Licht und das düstere Setting auf einem Kohleschlepper lieÃen das Klima von Unterdrückung, Verbot und Bestrafung extrem...