3 Adventure Novels - Complete Texts of King Solomon's Mines, She, and Allan Quatermain - Complete and Unabridged

Haggard, H. Rider

Verlag: Dover Publications, Inc. - Thrift Editions, New, York, 1951

Beschreibung

636 Pages Plus 11 Page Catalog of Dover Books. This is the June 1, 1951 Dover Paperback Edition with a cover price $2.00. Dover #T584. The spine is concave. The interior text pages tight and white. No marks of any sort. These three great novels of African adventure continue to be favorite reading of those who love a thrilling tale. Perhaps the reason that they continue to be part of the public imagination, delighting each new generation afresh, is that they are filled with qualities close to the human heart. Adventure, discovery, desire for immortality, terror, search for the primitive, for what is unadorned by civilization. As Kipling said of Haggard's work, It goes, and it grips, and it moves with all the freshness of youth. Haggard had lived for years among primitive peoples in Africa, and his knowledge of the Dark Continent was matched by few men. Yet beyond his personal knowledge of Africa, his experience of savage life and wild lands, and his faculty for making us believe impossible tales-lies a feeling for the supernatural. Adventure alone was not enough for Haggard. As he said, The thing must have a heart; mere adventures are not enough-I can turn them out by the peck. About She, one of the great mythical creations of the late 19th century, he said The only clear notion that I had was that of an immortal woman inspired by immortal love, and it came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down. Kipling simply said, You did not write She, you know. Something wrote it through you. His novels have been called parables, asking What are science, learning, and consciousness of knowledge and power, in the face of Omnipotence? They have been called romance. And they have been called excitingly alive and imaginative by almost everyone who has ever picked up a volume from Robert L. Stevenson to George Orwell. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 20100

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Titel: 3 Adventure Novels - Complete Texts of King ...

Verlag: Dover Publications, Inc. - Thrift Editions, New, York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1951

Einband: Trade Paperback

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: First Dover Edition