Autor: Rider Haggard

Henry Rider Haggard was born in Norfolk in 1856. His post of junior secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, Sir Henry Bulwer meant that he travelled and he spent six years in South Africa . Haggard was bet by his brother that he could not write as good a novel as Stevenson“s Treasure Island. The result of this bet was Haggard“s 1885 book, King Solomon“s Mines. It became a runaway bestseller so Haggard was able to leave London and concentrate on his writing. He published She in 1887. Andrew Lang thought She was „one of the most astonishing romances I ever read. The more impossible it is, the better you do it, till it seems like a story from the literature of another planet“. Haggard died in 1925.