Sir H. Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.
Haggard’s stories continue to this day to be popular and influential.
Allan Quatermain Series •Marie •Allan's Wife •Child of Storm •A Tale of Three Lions •Maiwa's Revenge •Hunter Quatermain's Story •Long Odds •Allan and The Holy Flower •She and Allan •The Ivory Child •Finished •Smith and The Pharaohs and Other Tales •King Solomon's Mines •The Ancient Allan •Allan Quatermain
She Series •She •Ayesha •She and Allan
Other Books •The Yellow God •Beatrice •Benita - An African Romance •Black Heart and White Heart •Cetywayo and His White Neighbours •Cleopatra •Colonel Quaritch, V.C. •Dawn •Doctor Therne •Elissa •Eric Brighteyes •Fair Margaret •Jess •Love Eternal •Lysbeth •Montezuma's Daughter •Moon of Israel •Morning Star •Mr. Meeson's Will •Nada The Lily •Pearl-Maiden •Queen Sheba's Ring •Red Eve •Regeneration •Stella Fregelius •Swallow •The Brethren •The Ghost Kings •The Lady of Blossholme •The Last Boer War •The Mahatma And The Hare •The People of The Mist •The Virgin of The Sun •The Wanderer's Necklace •The Wizard •The World's Desire •When The World Shook
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved in agricultural reform and improvement in the British Empire.
His breakout novel was King Solomon's Mines (1885), which was to be the first in a series telling of the multitudinous adventures of its protagonist, Allan Quatermain.
Haggard was made a Knight Bachelor in 1912 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Conservative candidate for the Eastern division of Norfolk in 1895. The locality of Rider, British Columbia, was named in his memory.