Fiction · 1904
The Brethren
The Brethren, first published in 1904, 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
- Dedication
- Author’s Note
- Prologue
- Chapter I — By the Waters of Death Creek
- Chapter II — Sir Andrew D’Arcy
- Chapter III — The Knighting of the Brethren
- Chapter IV — The Letter of Saladin
- Chapter V — The Wine Merchant
- Chapter VI — The Christmas Feast at Steeple
- Chapter VII — The Banner of Saladin
- Chapter VIII — The Widow Masouda
- Chapter IX — The Horses Flame and Smoke
- Chapter X — On Board the Galley
- Chapter XI — The City of Al-Je-Bal
- Chapter XII — The Lord of Death
- Chapter XIII — The Embassy
- Chapter XIV — The Combat on the Bridge
- Chapter XV — The Flight to Emesa
- Chapter XVI — The Sultan Saladin
- Chapter XVII — The Brethren Depart from Damascus
- Chapter XVIII — Wulf Pays for the Drugged Wine
- Chapter XIX — Before the Walls of Ascalon
- Chapter XX — The Luck of the Star of Hassan
- Chapter XXI — What Befell Godwin
- Chapter XXII — At Jerusalem
- Chapter XXIII — Saint Rosamund
- Chapter XXIV — The Dregs of the Cup
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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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