H(enry) Rider Haggard Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 12 pages of information about the life of H(enry) Rider Haggard.

H(enry) Rider Haggard Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 12 pages of information about the life of H(enry) Rider Haggard.
This section contains 3,343 words
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on H(enry) Rider Haggard

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 never mysterious nor unsolved. Instead Haggard presents his readers with bizarre situations and events in exotic settings: a demigoddess 2,000 years old, the most beautiful woman ever seen; a treasure greater than any other in the world, hidden since Solomon's time; a white civilization, ruled over by two queens, in the heart of Africa. In some ways these tales are fantastic--librarians usually catalog them under the rubric of "fantasy"--but they are also mysteries in the root sense of the word: "Something that has not been, or cannot be explained; hence something beyond human comprehension. A profound secret; an enigma." From this perspective H. Rider Haggard...

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