In H. Rider Haggard's 1885 debut novel, King Solomon's Mines adventurer Allan Quatermain is approached by aristocrat Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good to join them on an expedition into the heart of Africa. In search of Sir Henry's brother who disappeared looking for King Solomon's lost mines, the trio overcome tremendous odds to stumble upon a lost civilization that holds the key to unimaginable treasure. Considered to be the first of...

She (1887), an intoxicating mix of adventure, fantasy, and romance, is an underappreciated classic of English literature. Among his most successful works, She-which was inspired by Haggard's experience living in South Africa-helped the author establish his reputation as a leading writer of his generation and an invaluable pioneer of the lost world genre of fantasy fiction. Horace Holly, a young Cambridge professor, receives an unexpected opportunity...

This rattling 1887 action-adventure set in Africa's Transvaal region appeared the same year as Haggard's She. During the first Boer War, Captain John Niel plans to settle down on Silas Croft's farm, but falls into a love triangle with his nieces. And, to further complicate Niel's situation, he also must protect one of the nieces from a lecherous megalomaniac.

Heu-Heu is an adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard. Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances. Excerpt: "We did not reach the cave too soon, for as the boys scrambled into it after us the hail began to come down in earnest, and you fellows know, or at any rate have heard, what African hail can be, especially among the mountains of the Berg. I have known it to go through sheets of galvanized iron like rifle bullets, and really I believe...

Haggard was commissioned to write this 1910 work by his friend William Booth, the founder and first general of the Salvation Army. Haggard took the assignment seriously, traveling throughout England to gather first-hand observations of the Salvation Army in action; describing such institutions as shelters, free breakfast services, women's and men's social work, hospitals, and the anti-suicide bureau.

1346: Eve Clattering, known as "Red Eve" for the color of her dress, weds a lustful traitor of a knight-against her will, for he dosed her with a love potion. Now her real love must brave plague-stricken Europe, on a desperate quest: to have Eve's illicit marriage annulled by the Pope!

In the fourth and final book in the She sequence, the beautiful and immortal Ayesha tells her tale of power, wisdom, love, and deception, in her own words. Arabian by birth, Ayesha's natural beauty was the cause in her father's kingdom of many wars and conflicts between jealous princes and suitors, leading to a rumour that she was cursed. Swearing an oath of celibacy, to serve Isis the Goddess of the Spirit of Nature and turn away from Aphrodite the...

The Way of the Spirit is a novel centring on sexuality and its renunciation, but with a voyage both spatial and spiritual and an isolated community in Egypt that approximates a lost race.