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Fiction · 1910

Morning Star

H. Rider Haggard

Reading time
about 6 h
Length
85,209 words · 303 pages
Structure
18 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Morning Star, first published in 1910, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Author’s Note
  3. Chapter I — The Plot of Abi
  4. Chapter II — The Promise of the God
  5. Chapter III — Rames, the Princess, and the Crocodile
  6. Chapter IV — The Summoning of Amen
  7. Chapter V — How Rames Fought the Prince of Kesh
  8. Chapter VI — The Oath of Rames and of Tua
  9. Chapter VII — Tua Comes to Memphis
  10. Chapter VIII — The Magic Image
  11. Chapter IX — The Doom of Pharaoh
  12. Chapter X — The Coming of the Ka
  13. Chapter XI — The Dream of Abi
  14. Chapter XII — The Royal Marriage
  15. Chapter XIII — Abi Learns the Truth
  16. Chapter XIV — The Boat of Ra
  17. Chapter XV — Tua and the King of Tat
  18. Chapter XVI — The Beggar and the King
  19. Chapter XVII — Tua Finds Her Lover
  20. Chapter XVIII — The Judgment of the Gods

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H. Rider Haggard

1856–1925 · Victorian

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was born in Bradenham, Norfolk, and went out to South Africa at nineteen on the staff of the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, witnessing the British annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 and later farming ostriches there before returning to England to study law. King Solomon's Mines (1885), reportedly written on a wager with his brother that he could not write a novel as good as Treasure Island, was an immediate sensation and established the "lost world" adventure novel as a genre; She (1887) and Allan Quatermain (1887) followed, and Haggard returned to the character of Allan Quatermain across some eighteen further books over the next four decades. Away from fiction he wrote extensively on agriculture and rural welfare, served on royal commissions on land settlement and coastal erosion, and was knighted in 1912 for this public service. He died in London at sixty-eight.

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