This story is filled with adventure and humor. Allan Quatermain receives a sample of the huge orchid, the largest ever found. In England, he meets Mr. Somers, an avid orchid collector who is willing to fund an expedition to find the plant. This is the story of this expedition.

Haggard was a great popularizer of the story about the „lost world”, and his „The Ghost Kings” are an interesting addition to dozens of others in the author’s pantheon. We meet Rachel Dove, the daughter of a British missionary who has traveled through the wilds of Africa for most of her young life. Her life turned upside down when another teenager Richard Darrien saved her from sudden flooding. These two are another pair of Haggard’s predestined lovers.

Swallow is a lonely Dutch girl. She dreams that a loved one appears in her life. And soon she finds herself face to face with a sunken ship, stranded by the storm. So, off the coast of Africa the ship sank, whose path lay to India, one boy survived – he will become the main character of the story. To his misfortune, by birth he is a subject of the British crown, besides a nobleman. His love for the Swallow is intensifying and, to prove it, he must go against the kingdom....

She and Allan is a unique story written by Henry Rider Haggard. After all, he unites characters from three different series. Allan is looking for Ayesha in the hope of finding answers about his dead loved ones. He becomes involved in the rescue attempt of a young Portuguese-Scotch woman, and also fights with Ayesha’s enemies. This is truly one of the most exciting stories of a successful author.

Another Victorian novel by Haggard. The story of the orphan Ernest Kershaw, who is in search of a better life. One of the mystical moments is a find in the cemetery of the head of a woman who looks like his girlfriend. After that, strange things start to happen. More precisely, it is the beginning of the adventures of our hero.

Zmarli ukazują się żyjącym, a dusza ludzka jest nieśmiertelna. Z tą prawdą zetknęliśmy się już niejeden raz. Tajemnicą pozostaje jednak, w jakim celu zmarli ukazują się nam, żyjącym? Czy każdy może doświadczyć obecności dusz z zaświatów? W końcu, kim są zmarli, którzy się nam objawiają?Książka próbuje odpowiedzieć na te i inne pytania, przedstawiając poruszające historie świadków objawień. Opisane w niej świadectwa wiernych pokazują, że dusze zmarłych nie tylko przenikają do ...

Henryk Józef Muszyński – doktor habilitowany teologii, doktor nauk biblijnych, biskup pomocniczy chełmiński w l. 1985-1987, biskup diecezjalny włocławski w l. 1987-1992, arcybiskup metropolita gnieźnieński w l. 1992-2010, prymas Polski w l. 2009-2010, wiceprzewodniczący Konferencji Episkopatu Polski w l. 1994-1999, od 2010 r. arcybiskup senior archidiecezji gnieźnieńskiej. Ks. Wojciech Węckowski – prezbiter diecezji pelplińskiej, doktor teologii pastoralnej z dziedziny eduk...

Many people want to have a drug in their hands that can change our appearance. Our hero was in the hands of just such a drug. Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic drug taduki, after which he transforms into an incomprehensible creature. He falls in prehistoric times, in cave times. Such an adventure will be definitely interesting.

All events take place in Africa, in the imaginary kingdom, or perhaps one should say queendom of Mur, ruled by Maqueda, a descendant King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. This time Rider tells about two more lost tribes of Africa. Due to the contradictions between them, one of them faces death. The ring of Queen Sheba given to Dr. Richard Adams is a sign of well-deserved reward for the salvation of the people and the destruction of the main enemy.

Ayesha is an example of a strong and stately woman. It is a 2000-year-old woman who still looks amazing for her age, rules the tribes in Africa. Despite the unwelcome arrival of the British on her land. She extends a helping hand to them. Suddenly, she falls in love with one of the researchers of this group. But can such love be?

Haggard wrote the story „Red Eve” in six months. In it, we meet Sir Hugh de Cressi, the son of a merchant who is in love with Eve. She, too, is in love with him, but a traitor knight Sir Edmund Acour is caring for her. He realizes that he cannot conquer her feelings and gives her a potion. The result is that she did marry him. But how long will this potion act? Unlike other stories, where events are developing in Africa, here readers will be able to travel around Europe....

Queen of the Dawn is an ancient Egyptian fantasy. The beginning of the story is very rapidly developing, from the very beginning the pharaon dies. And the daughter of Pharaoh is forced to hide. She meets and falls in love with the usurper’s disguised son. The end is full of adventures and bright battles.

Haggard’s story about greed and selfishness. This is the story of the dastardly Mr. Meeson, the rich owner of the publishing house. The only brave human who wants to stop his atrocities is Augusta. However, he leaves a mark on her spine before death, which leads further to battle.

Henry Rider Haggard combines romance and travel in his story. This is a story about how Allan Quatermain met his first wife, Marie. Two dangerous criminals are trying to kill the main character and take away his wife. This story captures the reader from the first pages, because first we see the greatest battle. However, in the end, readers will witness the emotional ending of this story.

Eric Brighteyes – an epic novel about the Vikings, the main character of which accounts for Eric Brighteyes. All events revolve around Eric and his adventures across Iceland in the 10th century. He seeks to win the hand of his beloved Gudruda the Fair. Her father, Asmund, a priest of the Norse gods, opposes this, considered to be his unpromising boy for his daughter. The most awful thing in this story is that the witch wants to get Eric’s attention. But can our hero resist ...

Haggard explores love, friendship, and women during an adventure across the Atlantic and South America. In The „Virgin of the Sun”, the author also explores the Inca myth associated with the rise of one of America’s greatest pre-Columbian leaders, Pachacuti. After several small adventures and misfortunes, our hero, Hubert, meets and befriends a strange man from a strange land. This story is filled with murder, intrigue, adventure and betrayal. It will definitely be remember...

Beatrice is one of the most emotional works written by Henry Rider Haggard. There are no crazy adventures, frightening battles or supernatural events, but there is everything for the soul, for easy reading. It tells of the ill-fated love between Beatrice Granger, an unmarried Welsh teacher, and Jeffrey Bingham, a wretchedly married lawyer who lives in London. It all starts after Beatrice saved Jeffrey’s life in a canoe accident during a huge storm. This is a story about a t...

The Yellow God is another excellent book by H. Rider Haggard. Jeekie lives in England for about 30 years, arriving in England with his uncle. His uncle, Alan Vernon was involved in a dubious financial deal and left the company, after which he lost all his money. Jeekie persuades Alan to go to West Africa in search of good luck, and now the exciting adventures begin.

Fascynująca i intrygująca opowieść o mieszkańcach East Lynne East Lynne, posiadłość lorda Mount Severn, jest wyjątkowa, ale jej właściciel jest człowiekiem bez grosza. Kiedy lord nagle umiera, jego córka zostaje pozbawiona środków do życia. Aby uniknąć nieszczęścia i upokorzenia, lady Isabel przyjmuje propozycję małżeństwa od Archibalda Carlyle'a, nowego właściciela East Lynne. Wkrótce jednak zmaga się z dwoma silnymi emocjami: zazdrością o przyjaciółkę męża, Barbarę Har...

An old secret and a lovely woman and three men: Barr Radison, an American adventurer, searching for the mysterious source of black and silver fox pelts, Macferris Montenay, a ruthless giant of a man, trying to carve out his own kingdom in the wilderness, and Jean Nichemus, a halfbreed and Montenay’s henchman, harboring his own sinister plans. „Ghost Hills” is one of the adventure stories of a prolific H. Bedford-Jones who is rightly called the „King of Pulps”.

A strange jewel that wrought mischief and magic as it passed from hand to hand down the ages starts its strange eventful dramatic history. Now almost in our own day the Sphinx Emerald turns up in Cairo to work its malign magic in a memorable drama. „The Bride of the Sphinx” is the seventeenth story of the popular series about the Sphinx Emerald.

Meet another great pulp extravaganza, №3 in the amazing cycle of tales from Henry Bedford-Jones published in the mid-1940s. That strange bewitching jewel, the Sphinx Emerald, plays another part in world drama when a Mata Hari betrays the Egyptians, and Artaxerxes of Persia storms up the Nile to take over the ancient kingdom of the Pharaohs.

Imagine a single artifact that has been involved with every era and event from ancient Egypt to post-WWII.That’s the Sphinx Emerald. A strange jewel that wrought mischief and magic as it passed from hand to hand down the ages starts its strange eventful dramatic history here in Ancient Egypt... and crosses the paths of both simple folk and famous men such as Alexander the Great, Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, Leonardo da Vinci, Cardinal Richelieu.

A strange and mysterious gem named the Sphinx Emerald leaves its trail through history: a witness to many historic events and crosses the paths of both simple folk and famous men and, for good or bad, exerts its powerful influence... Catherine de Medici coveted the Sphinx Emerald. And when the King gave it as a reward to his physician, Doctor Nôtredame rode in dire peril of his life.