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作       者:H. Rider Haggard

出  版  社:Dead Dodo Presents Rider Haggard

出版时间:2015-08-14

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Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Colonel Quaritch, V.C.’ ? This is not a typical adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adultery, murder and a buried treasure! ? This is the tale of an ancient family’s struggles to survive, one woman’s selflessness and another’s evil schemes; Two Gentlemen, two scoundrels and one very underestimated, loyal servant. Listen as the tale unfolds and guess where the treasure is hidden that can save them all!? ? Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved in agricultural reform and improvement in the British Empire. ? His breakout novel was King Solomon's Mines (1885), which was to be the first in a series telling of the multitudinous adventures of its protagonist, Allan Quatermain. ? Haggard was made a Knight Bachelor in 1912 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Conservative candidate for the Eastern division of Norfolk in 1895. The locality of Rider, British Columbia, was named in his memory.
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COLONEL QUARITCH, V.C.

CHAPTER I: HAROLD QUARITCH MEDITATES

CHAPTER II: THE COLONEL MEETS THE SQUIRE

CHAPTER III: THE TALE OF SIR JAMES DE LA MOLLE

CHAPTER IV: THE END OF THE TALE

CHAPTER V: THE SQUIRE EXPLAINS THE POSITION

CHAPTER VI: LAWYER QUEST

CHAPTER VII: EDWARD COSSEY, ESQUIRE

CHAPTER VIII: MR. QUEST’S WIFE

CHAPTER IX: THE SHADOW OF RUIN

CHAPTER X: THE TENNIS PARTY

CHAPTER XI: IDA’S BARGAIN

CHAPTER XII: GEORGE PROPHESIES

CHAPTER XIII: ABOUT ART

CHAPTER XIV: THE TIGER SHOWS HER CLAWS

CHAPTER XV: THE HAPPY DAYS

CHAPTER XVI: THE HOUSE WITH THE RED PILLARS

CHAPTER XVII: THE TIGRESS IN HER DEN

CHAPTER XVIII: “WHAT SOME HAVE FOUND SO SWEET”

CHAPTER XIX: IN PAWN

CHAPTER XX: “GOOD-BYE TO YOU, EDWARD”

CHAPTER XXI: THE COLONEL GOES OUT SHOOTING

CHAPTER XXII: THE END OF THE MATCH

CHAPTER XXIII: THE BLOW FALLS

CHAPTER XXIV: “GOOD-BYE, MY DEAR, GOOD-BYE!”

CHAPTER XXV: THE SQUIRE GIVES HIS CONSENT

CHAPTER XXVI: BELLE PAYS A VISIT

CHAPTER XXVII: MR. QUEST HAS HIS INNINGS

CHAPTER XXVIII: HOW GEORGE TREATED JOHNNIE

CHAPTER XXIX: EDWARD COSSEY MEETS WITH AN ACCIDENT

CHAPTER XXX: HAROLD TAKES THE NEWS

CHAPTER XXXI: IDA RECANTS

CHAPTER XXXII: GEORGE PROPHESIES AGAIN

CHAPTER XXXIII: THE SQUIRE SPEAKS HIS MIND

CHAPTER XXXIV: GEORGE’S DIPLOMATIC ERRAND

CHAPTER XXXV: THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES

CHAPTER XXXVI: HOW THE GAME ENDED

CHAPTER XXXVII: SISTER AGNES

CHAPTER XXXVIII: COLONEL QUARITCH EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS

CHAPTER XXXIX: THE COLONEL GOES TO SLEEP

CHAPTER XL: BUT NOT TO BED

CHAPTER XLI: HOW THE NIGHT WENT

CHAPTER XLII: IDA GOES TO MEET HER FATE

CHAPTER XLIII: GEORGE IS SEEN TO LAUGH

CHAPTER XLIV: CHRISTMAS CHIMES

CONCLUSION: GOOD-BYE

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