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Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

The book is a comprehensive compilation of H. Rider Haggard's writings, featuring his most famous works such as 'King Solomon's Mines' and 'She.' Each story is accompanied by illustrations that bring the adventurous spirit of Haggard's writing to life. more

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H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard

H. Rider Haggard was a British writer known for his adventure novels. His work 'She' is considered a pioneer of early science fiction, having a profound impact on literature and cinema. more

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“How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is? What compromises, what deals, what betrayals of its secret nature must it make to stave off the wrecking crew, the exterminating angel, the guillotine? Is birth always a fall? Do angels have wings? Can men fly?”

“God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. ... From that day to this I have thought of myself as a wholly secular person.”