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The Rider Haggard Library

The Rider Haggard Library

By: Henry Rider Haggard
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Summary

 Step with us beyond the edge of the known world.

The Rider Haggard Library invites you into realms of lost kingdoms and deathless queens, of perilous quests beneath African suns and ancient cities long swallowed by the sands of Time. Here burn the undying flames of romance and destiny; here brave hearts wager life and soul against treasure, prophecy, and the dark mysteries of forgotten ages. In these readings, the great tales are restored to living voice, not as relics upon a dusty shelf, but as living adventures, wherein courage is tested, empires tremble, and Fate walks close beside the traveller.

Come, then. The map is drawn. The flame yet burns. And the road into the unknown lies open before you.Public domain
Episodes
  • When the World Shook - Note by J. R. Bickley, M.R.C.S.

    When the World Shook - Note by J. R. Bickley, M.R.C.S.
    May 18 2026
    In which the physician J. R. Bickley records the sudden passing of his friend Humphrey Arbuthnot after their perilous wanderings, together with the strange fragment of writing left upon the dead man’s desk that hints at a vision glimpsed in his final moments. And thus the chronicle of their adventures is set forth to the world according to Arbuthnot’s last command, while Bickley, Bastin, and memory itself look back toward the lost island of Orofena and the mysteries that now seem buried beyond the reach of mortal travellers.
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    4 mins
  • When the World Shook Chapter 26 - Tommy

    When the World Shook Chapter 26 - Tommy
    May 17 2026
    In which the narrator and his companions emerge from a terrifying underworld, marked by tragic loss and a haunting confrontation with the malevolent Oro, before enduring a strenuous ascent to the surface guided by their faithful hound, Tommy. Upon their return to the island, they find its landscape irreversibly altered and prepare for departure, reflecting somberly on the ruin wrought and the mysteries encountered in their subterranean odyssey.
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    28 mins
  • When the World Shook Chapter 25 - Sacrifice

    When the World Shook Chapter 25 - Sacrifice
    May 17 2026
    In which the fateful assembly confronts the eerie, eldritch mechanisms deep within the earth, where the ancient and formidable Oro reveals his dreadful design to alter the very balance of the world, met with courage and entreaty by those who oppose his ruinous intent. Through a vivid tableau of harrowing splendour and sacrificial heroism, they bear witness to a cataclysmic event that threatens to shake the foundations of the earth, yet is met with a poignant and fiery reprieve.
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    27 mins
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