Eric Brighteyes - Couverture souple

Haggard, H. Rider

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1773568019 ISBN 13 : 9781773568010

Editeur : Devoted Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

In the wild landscapes of Iceland, where honour is guarded by the sword and old feuds can stain generations with blood, Eric Brighteyes rises as a man marked for greatness. Strong, fearless, and renowned for his beauty and skill in battle, Eric loves Gudruda the Fair. Yet their path to happiness is threatened by rivalry, jealousy, prophecy, and the relentless schemes of Swanhild, whose passion for Eric becomes as dangerous as any enemy he faces in war. As blood-feuds deepen and loyalties are tested, Eric is drawn into a tragic struggle of love, vengeance, honour, and fate. Every victory carries a cost, and every oath pulls him closer to a destiny from which even the bravest warrior may not escape. Written in the spirit of the old Icelandic sagas, Eric Brighteyes is H. Rider Haggard's sweeping tale of heroic courage, doomed love, fierce rivalry, and the shadow of fate over a warrior's life.

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À propos de l'auteur

H. Rider Haggard was an English novelist, colonial administrator, agricultural reformer, and one of the central figures in the development of modern adventure fiction. He was born Henry Rider Haggard in Norfolk, England, in 1856, and spent part of his young adulthood in southern Africa, where he worked in the colonial service. That experience gave him material, settings, and political assumptions that shaped much of his fiction, especially his stories of exploration, empire, ancient kingdoms, hidden peoples, and dangerous quests.Haggard became famous with King Solomon's Mines, first published in 1885, a novel that introduced Allan Quatermain and helped establish the lost-world adventure as a powerful popular form. Its success was followed by Allan Quatermain, She, Ayesha, Nada the Lily, Montezuma's Daughter, The People of the Mist, and many other novels. His books combined fast-moving action, exotic landscapes, mysterious civilizations, supernatural suggestion, romance, and imperial-era adventure in a style that influenced later pulp fiction, lost-race stories, jungle adventure, fantasy, and cinematic adventure heroes.Allan Quatermain remains Haggard's most enduring male hero: a hunter, guide, observer, and reluctant adventurer whose toughness is often tempered by humility, fatalism, and melancholy. Haggard's work is also historically complicated. His fiction reflects the racial, imperial, and colonial attitudes of its age, yet it often shows more interest in African cultures, oral tradition, leadership, and moral courage than many adventure novels of the same period. That tension is part of why his books remain important artifacts of Victorian popular literature.Beyond fiction, Haggard wrote on agriculture, rural life, and land policy, subjects he took seriously throughout his later career. He was knighted in 1912 and died in 1925. His influence continued long after his death, especially through adventure fiction, fantasy, lost-world stories, and the broad tradition of expeditionary romance. Writers and filmmakers who built stories around ancient secrets, hidden kingdoms, perilous journeys, and larger-than-life explorers worked in territory Haggard helped define.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Devoted Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1773568019
• ISBN 13: 9781773568010
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Éditeur: Uyl Anthony
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