The Rider Haggard Library

In which the captive Englishman endures the horrors of a slave ship ravaged by plague, witnessing death and cruelty aboard before making a desperate, harrowing escape into the sea. Upon clinging to a ...

8 Mar 31min

In which our English narrator, having been taken captive by the Tobascans and spared from sacrifice, dwells in their land learning their languages and customs, and is eventually brought before the nob...

8 Mar 23min

In which the young protagonist inherits a modest fortune from his dying master, Andres de Fonseca, and encounters a distraught abbess who implores his assistance in a grim act of mercy involving a con...

7 Mar 28min

In which the narrator, disguised and resolute, embarks on a perilous voyage aboard a Spanish carak bound for Hispaniola, only to suffer a dreadful shipwreck that leaves him adrift with a handful of su...

7 Mar 22min

In which the sombre and solemn ceremony that seals a woman’s tragic fate under the harsh dominion of the priests is recounted with keen observation and tender sorrow, setting the stage for the narrato...

7 Mar 37min

In which a young Englishman, adopting the name Diego d’Aila, seeks to continue his medical studies discreetly in the ancient and lively city of Seville, where he encounters the cunning and enigmatic p...

6 Mar 29min

In which the young Thomas Wingfield pursues the elusive and villainous Juan de Garcia through the shadowed streets of Seville, only to be thwarted by treachery and circumstance despite a fierce duel u...

6 Mar 30min

In which the young Thomas Wingfield prepares to leave his English home and embark on a perilous journey to Spain in pursuit of the man who murdered his mother, bidding a poignant farewell to his belov...

6 Mar 21min