H. Rider Haggard Quotes


There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed.


Citations

Haggard, H. Rider. She: A History of Adventure. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887, p. 142.

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H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard
  • Born: June 22, 1856
  • Died: May 14, 1925
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Novelist, Scholar

Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE was an English writer of adventure fiction set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.