The complete online text of The Virgin of the Sun 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...

When your cruise ship docks at Road Town on Tortola, largest of the British Virgin Islands, you may wonder why this port is a regular call for more than a dozen cruise lines. What does this island with such ragged terrain rising abruptly...

Deflower power: Debut novel mines the depths of reality TV THE VIRGIN By Erik Barmack St. Martin's Griffin, 244pp., $12.95 paper Joseph Braun is your average red-blooded American man: He craves fame, respect, and true love. And he'll do anything to get...