H. Rider Haggard
2) She
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An Englishman undertakes a quest to find Ayesha, the mysterious white queen of a Central African tribe--a monstrous and desirable female.
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Past lives are relived in this crackerjack 1914 adventure. Olaf the Norseman braves a haunted tomb and finds the enchanted sword and necklace of a man called the Wanderer, which lead him to a mysterious woman in a dream-who he then finds in real life, and in danger.
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An Egyptian prince and a Hebrew woman find love and adventure in this dramatic take on the classic Exodus tale from the author of King's Solomon's Mines.
Ana, a scribe on his deathbed, narrates this tale of ancient Egypt and the biblical Exodus of the Hebrews. Ana tells of his childhood friend, Prince Seti, heir apparent to the pharaoh, and his travails. First, he is forced to marry his cousin. Then, his father disinherits him for thwarting his...
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She : Two British explorers exbark on a perilous quest through uncharted Africa in pursuit of a mysterious legend about an immortal, all-powerful queen, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed.
Ayesha: Guided by a vision, an Englishman and his companion search the mountains of Asia for the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian priestess.
She and Allan: The feared Zulu with doctor Zikali charges Allan Quatermain to take a message to a great white sorceress who rules...
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King Solomon's mines : Allan Quatermain relates the events of his safari into the interior of South Africa in search of the legendary lost treasure mines of King Solomon.
Allan Quatermain: The sequel to King Sollomon's mines, continues the story of the three men and their guide, who trek into remote Africa in search of a lost white race. Their perilous journey takes them to Zu-Vendis, a kingdom ruled by the beautiful twin sisters, Nyleptha and Sorais.
Allan's...
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Allan Quatermain series volume 11
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She and Allan is one of H. Rider Haggard's most exciting novels of adventure and romance. In bringing together two of his most compelling characters, Allan Quatermain, the quirky English Big-Game hunter and explorer, and the seductive and iconic supernatural African Queen Ayesha, or popularly known as "she-who-must-be-obeyed," Haggard has created one of the most exciting stories in his body of work.
When Allan Quatermain seeks out the Zulu witch-doctor...
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Radium age science fiction volume 4
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"When Humphrey Arbuthnot and his friends are marooned on a South Sea island, they awake the last two members of an advanced race, who have spent 250,000 years in a state of suspended animation. Using astral projection, Lord Oro visits London and the battlefields of the Western Front. Horrified by the degraded state of civilization, he activates an infernal technology capable of destroying the modern world. Only Oro's beautiful superwoman daughter,...
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Allan Quatermain, a professional big game hunter, is approached by English aristocrat Sir Henry Curtis and his friend, Captain John Good, late of the Royal Navy. They need his help finding Sir Henry's brother, who was last seen traveling north into the unexplored interior in search of the fabled King Solomon's Mines.
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"Los fantasmas llevan siglos apareciéndose en las páginas de los libros. La presente selección de relatos recorre diferentes países y culturas para abordar la figura del fantasma en la literatura: desde los espectros que vagan de noche arrastrando sus cadenas hasta planteamientos mucho más sutiles o heterodoxos. Autores de todos los géneros literarios se dan cita en esta antología para mostrarnos su cara más fantasmal: Poe, Edith Wharton,...