Allan Quatermain
1. King Solomon's Mines (1885): Following a map drawn 300 years ago by a dying man, three adventurers set out in search of the legendary riches of King Solomon's diamond mines. On their journey they have to cross deserts, mountains and inhabitants that kill strangers. Will they make the journey and become the richest men on Earth?
2. Allan Quatermain (1887): This sequel to "King Solomon's Mines" was based on Haggard's own experiences in Africa. Allan Quatermain and his companions set out for Africa, this time in search of a white race reputed to live north of Mount Kenya. They discover a lost civilization and become embroiled in a fierce civil war.
3. Allan's Wife (1887): The tale of Allan Quatermain's second wife, Stella, is also a classic fantasy African adventure, complete with magic and ghosts, plus Haggard's trademark gripping narrative style.
4. Maiwa's Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand (1888): Allan Quatermain is on a hunting safari in Afica in the land of the great chief Eambe, when he meets Maiway, wife of Wambe. Maiwa implores him to help avenge her son, murdered by his jealous father to prevent him becoming a rival.
5. Marie (1912): Allan Quatermain tells a moving tale of his first wife, depicting the tumultuous political era of the 1830's involving the trek-Boers, French colonists and the Zulu tribe in the Cape colony of South Africa. Alan accompanies the ill-fated Pieter Retief and the Boer Commision on an embassy to the Zulu despot, Dingaan. Villains attempt to kill Allan and rob him of his wife.
6. Child of Storm (1913): In this sequel to Marie, Allan Quatermain helps his Zulu friend Saduko in a crazy battle to win 100 cattle for the dowry of his love Mameena. However, the beautiful and mysterious Mameena, known as the "Child of Storm", seduces Allan and tries to engage him in marriage.
7. The Holy Flower (1915): "I do not suppose that anyone who knows the name of Allan Quatermain would be likely to associate it with flowers, and especially with orchids. Yet as it happens it was once my lot to take part in an orchid hunt of so remarkable a character that I think its details should not be lost."
8. Finished (1917): In this sequel to Child of Storm, Allan Quatermain again becomes embroiled in events in South Africa and narrates this tale of fraternal rivalry.
9. The Ivory Child (1916): This novel is a direct continuation of "Allan and the Holy Flower." Quatermain goes on a quest to find his buddy's kidnapped wife, but also gets involved in a lost tribe's civil war. Thrown into the mix are a gigantic and evil elephant god, and a monster snake guardian.
10. The Ancient Allan (1920): A gripping novel which takes us and the hero, adventurer Allan Quatermain, back in time. A thrilling piece of fiction, it relates several exciting adventures like a lion hunt, wrestling with a crocodile, and a large-scale battle between various armies.
11. She and Allan (1920): Allan Quatermain, together with Hans, the Hottentot and the Zulu-Chief Omslopogaas, at the bidding of the old Witch Doctor Zikali seeks out Ayesha, the daughter of Isis to find answers to their questions about life and death.
12. Heu-heu: or The Monster (1924): Allan and Hottentot Hans go on a mission for the Zulu wizard Zikali to bring back some leaves from the Tree of Illusions. They also attempt to find Heu-Heu, a 12-foot-tall, clawed and red-bearded semigorilla god who may or may not exist. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200191.txt
13. The Treasure of the Lake (1926): Allan Quatermain finds a village in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with a strange knowledge of future events.
14. Allan and the Ice-gods (1927): First published in 1927, this novel features an ageing Allan Quatermain as his consciousness travels back through time to the Ice Age.'
15. A tale of three lions: Old hunter Quartermain has to face the mighty King of Animals - the Lion.
16. Long odds (1951): Allan Quatermain's further encounters with lions
Ayesha
1. She (1886): A beautiful and powerful white queen of an African tribe ("She who must be obeyed") is the centre of attention here as she falls in love with an English explorer.
2. Ayesha: The Return of She (1905): Horace Holly and Leo Vincey have spent the years travelling the world looking for Ayesha, along the way they experience many adventures, including avalanches, glaciers and even death-hounds before finally arriving in the court of Kaloon.
3. Wisdom's Daughter: What was the greatest fault of Ayesha, She-Who-Must-be-Obeyed? As her story shows, it was vanity, rather than love of Kallikrates that stained her hands with his innocent blood and brought upon her the curse of deathlessness.
Novels
Dawn (1884): Philip Caresfoot is all but promised to marry the local heiress, Maria Lee. However, when Hilda, a noblewoman with no wealth of her own, arrives in town to become Maria's companion, Philip begins to fall in love with her.
The Witch's Head (1884): Ernest Kershaw comes to live with his uncle Reginald Cardus after his mother's death. He falls in love with Eva. However, after killing his cousin in a duel, he is forced to emigrate to South Africa.
Jess (1887): The story takes place during the time of the first Boer War, in 1880-81. Captain John Niel comes to work on the Transvaal farm of a fellow Englishman, Silas Croft, and becomes involved in a love triangle of sorts with Croft's two nieces.
Colonel Quaritch, V.C (1888): The tale of an ancient family’s struggles to survive, one woman’s selflessness and another’s evil schemes; two gentlemen, two scoundrels and one loyal servant.
Mr. Meeson's Will (1888): H. Rider Haggard takes the reader inside the British publishing industry, where greed and hack writers (he calls them “tame writers”) are prominent.
Cleopatra (1889): Harmachis, born of old, long-denied royal blood in ancient Egypt, is blessed at birth with the promise of greatness and power . . . and once raised to the Pharaoh's throne, becomes the hope of Egypt against the mailed heel of the Greek and the thrusting spear of the Roman. Then to him appears Queen Cleopatra, with her eyes of Cyprian violet, her dark waves of hair . . . and her soul-consuming fiery spirit!
The World's Desire (1890) (with Andrew Lang): The continuing story of Odyseus, who returns to Ithaca to find his home destroyed. Aphrodite orders him to go to Egypt to seek out the immortal Helen, whom he wooed before marrying Penelope.
Beatrice (1890): An emotional account of the love affair between Beatrice Granger, an unmarried schoolteacher, and Geoffrey Bingham, an unhappily married barrister who lives in London.
The Saga of Eric Brighteyes (1891): The adventures of the stout Icelandic yeoman, Eric Thorgrimurs' son as he struggles to win the hand of his beloved, Gudruda the Fair, despite the vigorous opposition of her half-sister, Swanhild the Fatherless (who seeks Eric for her own).
Nada the Lily (1892): The tale of the youth of Umslopogaas, holder of the iron Chieftainess, the axe Groan-maker, who was named Bulalio the Slaughterer, and of his love for Nada, the most beautiful of Zulu women.
Montezuma's Daughter (1893): The strange adventures and escapes of Thomas Wingfield, half English and half Spanish, in the years after Cortes's conquest of Mexico.
The People of the Mist (1894) Leonard Outram is a British adventurer who is in Africa seeking his fortune. He becomes part of the rescue of a Portuguese woman from a large slave camp. Leonard, his companion Otter and the girl set off and find the people of the mist. They then impersonate gods and priests with the hope of getting the people's hoard of jewels.
Joan Haste (1895)The story of a shop girl with a past.
Heart of the World (1895): The search for a secret and hidden Mayan civilization living in a long lost city filled with gold and jewels! It is also a love story of a couple willing to give up everything for true love.
The Wizard (1896): Noble-savage romance with a white missionary as the catalyst.
Swallow: A tale of the Great Trek (1898): Colonial romance, with the narrator an ancient vrouw recalling the youth of her daughter, known to the natives as Swallow. Beginning with all the Boer prejudices and retaining some to the end, the vrouw gradually learns that some savages can be noble.
Dr. Therne (1898): The weakening of the vaccination laws results in a plague that sweeps England.
The Last Boer War (1899): A History of the
Transvaal. Note: Limited preview from Google
The Spring of Lion (1899)
Black Heart and White Heart (1900): In this adventure, the hero narrates the story of a safari that taxes his wilderness skills to the limit and nearly ends in his death. Quartermain also tells a tale of friendship and treachery between two unlikely partners.
Elissa: Or The Doom Of Zimbabwe (1900)
The New South Africa (1900)
Lysbeth: A Tale Of The Dutch (1901)
Stella Fregelius: a Tale of Three Destinies (1903)
The Pearl Maiden: A tale of the fall of Jerusalem (1903)
The Brethren (1904)
The Poor and the Land: Report on the Salvation Army
Colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England, with Scheme of National
Land Resettlement. (1905). Note: Preview from Google, fairly extensive
The Way of the Spirit (1906): A story of love, pain, the supernatural, and a love that survives the grave.
Benita: an African Romance (1906) aka The Spirit of Bambatse: Based on actual events, this tale of shipwreck and hidden gold is among Haggard's most riveting tales of adventure.
Fair Margaret (1907)
The Yellow God (1908): The Yellow God, originally published in 1908, is another of Haggard's African novels, and it features many elements of the fantastic, such as a magic mask and fetish objects, a lost race, reincarnation, and an immortal woman whose many husbands she has preserved as mummies! It certainly more than stands its own as a thrilling adventure novel.
The Ghost Kings (1908):
The Lady of Blossholme (1909)
Queen Sheeba's Ring (1910)
Morning Star (1910): Haggard's classic Egyptian novel, filled with magic, wandering Kas (or spirit-doubles), old gods, romance, and adventure. Features an introduction by Lin Carter.
The Mahatma and the Hare (1911): Our narrator is a dejected writer. On the verge of suicide, he is saved by an occult student, Jorsen. Jorsen helps the writer, teaching him about the occult sciences. Our narrator then dreams about the road to heaven, where a hare tells the story of terror and pain while being hunted. Handsomely illustrated.
Rural Denmark: And its lessons (1911)
Red Eve (1911): Journey back in time to the Dark Ages of Europe. This occult historical novel presents a fascinating account of a time when superstition ruled the Earth. Meet the Black Plague as a personified presence with supernatural powers. This compelling tale is another one of Haggard's lost adventure novels.
The Wanderer's Necklace (1914): A tale of a Norseman who travels in time.
A Call to Arms (1914)
Love Eternal (1918)
Moon of Israel (1918): Retelling of the Biblical Exodus from the point of view of a scribe. The novel was first serialized in The Cornhill Magazine from January through October in 1918 and released in book for in October 1918.
When the World Shook (1919): A tale of the sleeping god Oro and his beautiful daughter.
Smith and the Pharaohs (1920)
The Missionary and the Witch-doctor (1920)
The Virgin of the Sun (1922)
Queen of the Dawn (1925): A Pharaoh is deposed and killed. A secret religious order raises Pharaoh's daughter, and she meets and falls in love with the usurper's disguised son.
Mary of Marion Isle (1929)
Belshazzar (1930): Haggard's last book set in Syria. Royal young Ramose has given up women after the murder of his first love. His story involves sedition, intrigue, madness and jealousy which culminated at Belshazzar's great feast--the most famous dinner party in history.
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1999): A British adventurer finds himself at odds with the two beautiful sisters who rule Zu-Vendis in Africa. A struggle is imminent--who will emerge the victor?
