Violet Books: Forgotten Cities

"Haggard invented a new type of fantasy adventure for which the term 'the lost race novel' was later coined. Writers virtually fell over each other, following in his footsteps — as they do in the wake of every literary innovation. "

When I was a kid I had a copy of the Collected H. Rider Haggard, a bookcase full of National Geographics, and Reader's Digest Mysteries of the Ancient World. For some reason, I thought that the three novels in the collection I owned were every novel he ever wrote. I now find, to my great joy, that I was grossly mistaken.

I am like a kid at Christmas