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قراءة كتاب When the World Shook Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
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When the World Shook Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
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.
The Earl Curzon of Kedleston, K.G.
CONTENTS
Chapter I. Arbuthnot Describes Himself
Chapter II. Bastin and Bickley
Chapter IV. Death and Departure
Chapter VIII. Bastin Attempts the Martyr's Crown
Chapter IX. The Island in the Lake
Chapter X. The Dwellers in the Tomb
Chapter XII. Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Years!
Chapter XIII. Oro Speaks and Bastin Argues
Chapter XVI. Visions of the Past
Chapter XIX. The Proposals of Bastin and Bickley
Chapter XX. Oro and Arbuthnot Travel by Night
Chapter XXI. Love's Eternal Altar
Chapter XXIII. In the Temple of Fate
Chapter XXIV. The Chariot of the Pit