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Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. H. Rider Haggard's "The Yellow God" is an illustrated edition and is the eighth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. This is H. Rider Haggard's incredible... Read Full Overview

We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers. Our goal is to access the very large literary repository of general public books. The main contents of our... Read Full Overview

Book Excerpt: ...ask seemed to fall from him. His face broke up like ice beneath a thaw. He rose from his table and began to walk up and down the room. He talked to himself aloud."Great Heavens " he muttered, "what a game to have played, and it will go through. I believe that... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Book Excerpt: ...ask seemed to fall from him. His face broke up like ice beneath a thaw. He rose from his table and began to walk up and down the room. He talked to himself aloud."Great Heavens " he muttered, "what a game to have played, and it will go through. I believe that... Read Full Overview

A Yellow God By H. Rider Haggard "I cannot," he replied, colouring. "I promised to wear it always." "Whom did you promise?" she asked with a flash of rage. "Was it a woman? Nay, I see, it is a man's ring, and that is well, for otherwise I would bring a curse on her, however far... Read Full Overview

If Haggard-one of the greatest adventure writers of all time-is remembered now, it is for his novels featuring Allan Quatermain, a hero whose exploits form the most important sequence of his books. Quatermain's life is chronicled in such novels as King Solomon's Mines, Allan... Read Full Overview

The Yellow god: An Idol of AfricaBy H. Rider Haggard

If Haggard-one of the greatest adventure writers of all time-is remembered now, it is for his novels featuring Allan Quatermain, a hero whose exploits form the most important sequence of his books. Quatermain's life is chronicled in such novels as King Solomon's Mines, Allan... Read Full Overview

Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (1856-1925) was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private 'crammer' in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office, for which he never sat... Read Full Overview

"I cannot," he replied, colouring. "I promised to wear it always." "Whom did you promise?" she asked with a flash of rage. "Was it a woman? Nay, I see, it is a man's ring, and that is well, for otherwise I would bring a curse on her, however far off she may be dwelling. Say no... Read Full Overview