The complete online text of The Wizard 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...

[Ed. This chapter from Levinson s Practical Fairy Tales for Everyday Living tells how the word "is " can lead people to confuse opinions with facts. ] IN A MAJOR metropolitan area there once lived a big-mouthed woman who was not an easy...

Injuries to Wizards guard Antonio Daniels and forward Caron Butler will be evaluated at practice today. Daniels suffered a sprained left ankle after coming down on the foot of Orlando Magic guard Steve Francis on Saturday night and Butler has missed the last two...

Brant Parker, who for decades illustrated "The Wizard of Id" comic strip, has died just days after the passing of his collaborator on the comic. He was 86.Parker, of Lynchburg, died Sunday at a nursing facility there from complications of Alzheimer's disease and a stroke...

Samuel Dalembert had 19 points and 11 rebounds and Andre Miller scored 18 points to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to an 85-84 victory over the Washington Wizards on Friday night.Willie Green and Reggie Evans added 13 points each for the Sixers (5-10), who snapped a...