Dawn
By H. Rider Haggard
12 Sep, 2019
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Dawn is a story of Philip Caresfoot who promised to marry the local heiress, Maria Lee. They are both to inherit sm
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Dawn is a story of Philip Caresfoot who promised to marry the local heiress, Maria Lee. They are both to inherit small fortunes in their own right. And thus their marriages to each other would make an ever wealthier household. However, when Hilda, a noblewoman with no wealth of her own, arrives in town to become Maria's companion, Philip begins to fall in love with her. Less