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Sir Henry Rider Haggard, better known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels. \u00a0He was born in 1856 and died in 1925.<\/p>\n
He was born at Bradenham, Norfolk. \u00a0In his youth\u00a0Haggard traveled to South Africa to work in the British government. \u00a0Later he would\u00a0draw upon his experiences and knowledge of Africa as a writer. \u00a0He married Marianna Louisa Margitson in 1880. \u00a0The couple had a son named Jack (who died of measles at age 10) and three daughters, Angela, Dorothy and Lilias.<\/p>\n
King Solomon’s Mines, o<\/em>ne of his most famous books, was published in 1885 and introduced the character of Allan Quatermain.<\/p>\n Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0King Solomon’s Mines<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0H. Rider Haggard<\/a><\/p>\n Dawn<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sir Henry Rider Haggard, better known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels. He was born in 1856 and died in 1925.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946],"tags":[786,805,1165,787,816,1164],"class_list":["post-5045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-information","tag-allan-quatermain","tag-bio1","tag-cleopatra","tag-h-rider-haggard","tag-king-solomons-mines","tag-she"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}H. Rider Haggard at Amazon.com<\/a><\/h3>\n
The Novels of H. Rider Haggard<\/h2>\n
\nThe Witch’s Head<\/em>
\nKing Solomon’s Mines<\/em><\/a>
\nShe<\/em><\/a>
\nAllan Quatermain<\/em><\/a>
\nJess<\/em>
\nA Tale of Three Lions<\/em>
\nMaiwa’s Revenge, or the War of the Little Hand<\/em>
\nColonel Quaritch, VC<\/em>
\nCleopatra<\/em><\/a>
\nBeatrice<\/em>
\nThe World’s Desire<\/em>
\nEric Brighteyes<\/em>
\nNada the Lily<\/em>
\nAn Heroic Effort<\/em>
\nMontezuma’s Daughter<\/em>
\nThe People of the Mist<\/em>
\nHeart of the World<\/em>
\nJoan Haste<\/em>
\nThe Wizard<\/em>
\nDoctor Therne<\/em>
\nSwallow: A Tale of the Great Trek<\/em>
\nLysbeth<\/em>
\nPearl Maiden<\/em>
\nStella Fregelius: A Tale of Three Destinies<\/em>
\nThe Brethren<\/em>
\nAyesha: The Return of She<\/em>
\nThe Way of the Spirit<\/em>
\nBenita<\/em>
\nFair Margaret<\/em>
\nThe Ghost Kings<\/em>
\nThe Yellow God<\/em>
\nThe Lady of Blossholme<\/em>
\nMorning Star<\/em>
\nQueen Sheba’s Ring<\/em>
\nRed Eve<\/em>
\nThe Mahatma and the Hare<\/em>
\nMarie<\/em>
\nChild of Storm<\/em>
\nThe Wanderer’s Necklace<\/em>
\nThe Holy Flower<\/em>
\nThe Ivory Child<\/em>
\nFinished<\/em>
\nLove Eternal<\/em>
\nMoon of Israel<\/em>
\nWhen the World Shook<\/em>
\nThe Ancient Allan<\/em>
\nShe and Allan<\/em>
\nThe Virgin of the Sun<\/em>
\nWisdom’s Daughter<\/em>
\nHeu-Heu<\/em>
\nQueen of the Dawn<\/em>
\nThe Treasure of the Lake<\/em>
\nAllan and the Ice-gods<\/em>
\nMary of Marion Isle<\/em>
\nBelshazzar<\/em><\/p>\n