How Long to Read Rider Haggard

How Long Does it Take to Read Rider Haggard?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Rider Haggard by D. S. Higgins

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this new, revised and updated edition of his comprehensive biography of Rider Haggard, D.S. Higgins uses both the mass of previously unpublished material he unearthed and the evidence contained in Haggard's sixty-nine novels to show that the best-selling author left much more for posterity than he would knowingly have revealed to his millions of readers. Sydney Higgins discovered the identity of the woman with whom Haggard fell in love when he was a teenager. Although the affair was unconsummated and both married other partners, he believed that their love was eternal and they would be reunited after death. This love that haunted Haggard throughout his life, combined with feelings of guilt and disgust at his early sexual encounters, led him to believe that it was the fire of sex that destroyed the otherwise untarnished beauty of pure love. It is this belief that powered his vivid description of the transformation scene in She where the 'most beautiful woman in the world' who had lived for an eternity withers and dies in the flames immediately prior to marrying the man she had always loved.Haggard, the ill-educated younger son of a blustering Norfolk Squire, was inspired by these secret inner feelings to write, in a golden five-year period that started when he was twenty-nine, five books that were the sensation of his age – 'King Solomon's Mines', 'Allan Quatermain', 'Jess', 'She' and 'Cleopatra'. The last, he dedicated to his mother whom he always loved deeply and appears to have written to please her. Shortly after 'Cleopatra' was published, she died. A few weeks later, Haggard finished 'Nada the Lily' and that too was justifiably a great success. He was at the height of his success and at an age when many writers had just begun their careers but with his mother's death he seemed to lose his inspiration and his obsession to write. He did not start another book for sixteen months. During the next twelve years, he did write another twenty-five novels but much time and effort were spent producing non-fiction books that are now all but forgotten although one at least, 'A Farmer's Year' is a charming and illuminating literary gem. For the rest of his life, writing novels became a way of earning money and his interests and quest for success were concentrated on agricultural research, politics, business and public service. In his meticulously researched biography, D.S. Higgins explores the many mysteries of Haggard's life, revealing a man more complex than had previously been understood and whose work is acknowledged as having influenced many writers including Rudyard Kipling, Henry Miller, C.S. Lewis and Graham Greene.

How long is Rider Haggard?

Rider Haggard by D. S. Higgins is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.

This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Rider Haggard Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read Rider Haggard aloud.

What Reading Level is Rider Haggard?

Rider Haggard is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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