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A Farmer's Year

Being His Commonplace Book for 1898

A Farmer's Year( )
Author: Haggard, H. Rider
Series title:Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century Ser.
ISBN:978-1-108-02536-2
Publication Date:Jan 2011
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $65.99
Book Description:

Best-selling novelist Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was also a recognised expert on agricultural practice, and published this account of his life and work as a farmer in Norfolk in 1899. It gives a lyrical but unsentimental view of both the pleasure and the problems of late Victorian rural life.

Book Details
Pages:586
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General
Social Science / Sociology / Rural
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.46 x 8.424 x 1.287 Inches
Book Weight:1.63 Pounds
Author Biography
Haggard, H. Rider (Author)
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) is best remembered for his 34 adventure fantasy novels set in exotic locations. As a child, Haggard, whose father was an English barrister, was considered dim-witted and was inclined to daydreaming. His parents ended his formal education when he was seventeen, and he was sent to work in South Africa, where his imagination was inspired by the people, animals, and jungle. He became close friends with authors Rudyard Kipling and Andrew Lang.

Haggard's most popular books are King Solomon's Mines (1886) and She (1887). He also wrote short stories, as well as nonfiction on topics such as gardening, English farming, and rural life, interests which led to duties on government commissions concerned with land maintenance. For his literary contributions and his government service, Haggard was knighted in 1912.

Several of Haggard's novels have been filmed. She was filmed in 1965, starring Ursula Andress. King Solomon's Mines was filmed with Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr in 1950, and again with Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone in 1985. Also, the novel Allan Quatermain was filmed as Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold with Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone in 1986.

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