The World's Desire
H. Rider Haggard Andrew Lang
The World's Desire
H. Rider Haggard Andrew Lang · English
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The World's Desire
H. Rider Haggard Andrew Lang · English
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PREFACE The period in which the story of The World’s Desire is cast, was a period when, as Miss Braddon remarks of the age of the Plantagenets, “anything might happen.” Recent discoveries, mainly by Dr. Schliemann and Mr. Flinders Petrie, have shown that there really was much intercourse between Heroic Greece, the Greece of the Achaeans, and the Egypt of the Ramessids. This connection, rumoured of in Greek legends, is attested by Egyptian relics found in the graves of Mycenae, and by ve
The World's Desire
H. Rider Haggard Andrew Lang
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