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Fiction · 1911

Red Eve

H. Rider Haggard

Reading time
about 7 h
Length
99,674 words · 351 pages
Structure
19 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Red Eve, first published in 1911, 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. Chapter I — The Trysting-Place
  3. Chapter II — The Fight by the River
  4. Chapter III — Father Andrew
  5. Chapter IV — The Penance
  6. Chapter V — Grey Dick Shows His Archery
  7. Chapter VI — The Snare
  8. Chapter VII — The Love Philtre
  9. Chapter VIII — Too Late
  10. Chapter IX — Crecy Field
  11. Chapter X — The King’s Champion
  12. Chapter XI — The Challenge
  13. Chapter XII — The Man from the East
  14. Chapter XIII — Murgh’s Arrow
  15. Chapter XIV — At the Place of Arms
  16. Chapter XV — The Death at Work
  17. Chapter XVI — At Avignon
  18. Chapter XVII — A Meeting
  19. Chapter XVIII — The Plague Pit
  20. Chapter XIX — The Doom

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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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