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Jess

Name: Jess
Author: H. Rider Haggard
ISBN: 9781411441422

by H. Rider Haggard

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Overview

This rattling 1887 action-adventure set in Africa’s Transvaal region appeared the same year as Haggard’s She. During the first Boer War, Captain John Niel plans to settle down on Silas Croft’s farm, but falls into a love triangle with his nieces. And, to further complicate Niel’s situation, he also must protect one of the nieces from a lecherous megalomaniac.

About the Author, H. Rider Haggard

Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a British civil servant and novelist whose tales of mystery, romance, and rip-roaring adventure deeply influenced subsequent generations of writers. Haggard is most famous as the author of the novel King Solomon’s Mines, whose Allan Quartermain was the inspiration for the character Indian Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies.