When the World Shook
H. Rider Haggard
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When the World Shook Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by H. Rider Haggard DEDICATION Ditchingham, 1918. MY DEAR CURZON, More than thirty years ago you tried to protect me, then a stranger to you, from one of the falsest and most malignant accusations ever made against a writer. So complete was your exposure of the methods of those at work to blacken a person whom they knew to be innocent, that, as you will remember, they refused to publish your analysis which destroyed their charges and, incidentally, revealed their motives. Although for this reason vindication came otherwise, your kindness is one that I have never forgotten, since, whatever the immediate issue of any effort, in the end it is the intention that avails. Therefore in gratitude and memory I ask you to accept this romance, as I know that you do not disdain the study of romance in the intervals of your Imperial work. The application of its parable to our state and possibilities-- beneath or beyond these glimpses of the moon--I leave to your discernment. Believe me, Ever sincerely yours, H. RIDER HAGGARD. To The Earl Curzon of Kedleston, K.G. CONTENTS 1. ARBUTHNOT DESCRIBES HIMSELF 2. BASTIN AND BICKLEY 3. NATALIE 4. DEATH AND DEPARTURE 5. THE CYCLONE 6. LAND 7. THE OROFENANS 8. BASTIN ATTEMPTS THE MARTYR'S CROWN 9. THE ISLAND IN THE LAKE 10. THE DWELLERS IN THE TOMB 11. RESURRECTION 12. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND YEARS! 13. ORO SPEAKS AND BASTIN ARGUES 14. THE UNDER-WORLD 15. ORO IN HIS HOUSE 16. VISIONS OF THE PAST 17. YVA EXPLAINS 18. THE ACCIDENT 19. THE PROPOSALS OF BASTIN AND BICKLEY 20. ORO AND ARBUTHNOT TRAVEL BY NIGHT 21. LOVE'S ETERNAL ALTAR 22. THE COMMAND 23. IN THE TEMPLE OF FATE 24. THE CHARIOT OF THE PIT 25. SACRIFICE 26. TOMMY 27. BASTIN DISCOVERS A RESEMBLANCE 28. NOTE BY J. R. BICKLEY, M.R.C.S. When the World ShookNext All
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