H. Rider Haggard
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H.R. Haggard's classic tale of savage adventure in untamed Africa is reimagined by veteran comics creators, Pablo Marcos and Mark Ellis. Before Tarzan and long before Indiana Jones there was Allan Quatermain-the quick-witted adventurer equally at home in the drawing rooms of London and the Dark Continent of 19th century Africa. When he meets the beautiful Princess Ignosa, the living embodiment of fierce female grace, Quatermain is drawn down a path...
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The Wanderer's Necklace is classic Haggard, filled with adventure, intrigue, and steadfastness in the face of overwhelming obstacles. "The Editor" recalls his past life as Olaf, an 8th century Norseman. Olaf opens the ancient tomb of the Wanderer and discovers a sword and half a necklace on the warrior's crumbling skeleton. Olaf must find the other half of the necklace, and the woman who wears it. Love, betrayal, a clash with Norse god Odin, and the...
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A runaway bestseller on its publication in 1887, H. Rider Haggard’s She is a Victorian thrill ride of a novel, featuring a lost African kingdom ruled by a mysterious, implacable queen; ferocious wildlife and yawning abysses; and an eerie love story that spans two thousand years. She has bewitched readers from Freud and Jung to C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien; in her Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic—which...
5) She
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On a journey to a lost African kingdom, Horace Holly and Leo Vincey meet a mysterious queen, Ayesha, who is known as "She" or "She-who-must-be-obeyed."