Very prolific indeed. some of those ive never heard of.
The link JD provided lists 68 books.
Haggard says somewhere that the books he wrote in a ten-year period -- I forget exactly how he put it, but it included
King Solomon's Mines and
She -- were his best. Say roughly Nos. 4-20 in the list -- though I haven't read several of those. If I'm not mistaken, it was at about the end of that ten-year period that Haggard began to dictate his books rather than write them himself. Some of those later books that I have read were pretty fair entertainment, including maybe the "Zulu trilogy" that commences with
Marie and continues with
Child of Storm and concludes with
Finished, but some of the books have perfunctory development of some elements that could have been more interesting, combined with tracts of poor dialogue (as in
When the World Shook, if I remember rightly) that Haggard may have found regrettably easy to reel off.
In my experience the Allan Quatermain books are usually pretty decent fun, but I have to confess that two late ones --
The Ancient Allan and
Allan and the Ice Gods -- remain unread. I got fairly well into the former one but dropped it.
Bowled over by
She, readers might guess that the next books to read would be the other "Ayesha" books. My own experience is that
Ayesha: The Return of She and
She and Allan were a bit disappointing. I've had a copy of
Wisdom's Daughter for many years but haven't read it.
So I'd say, to any people who've read
King Solomon's Mines and
She, that if you're looking for another Haggard romance to read and don't mind a perhaps "old-fashioned" style, you might try
Montezuma's Daughter. I think Haggard's imagination was still much involved with his material in that one. How about other Haggard readers -- what would you suggest for Haggard #3?
By the way, all or nearly all of Haggard should be available at Project Gutenberg or Project Gutenberg of Australia. My method has been to download them and make Word files of a given novel, choose a type font and size that I like, and print them. You send up wth hundreds of sheets, and can use a heavy-duty stapler to make a three- or four-"volume" book. Yes, the "books" don't look great, but this approach may be cheaper than buying used books, and you need have no compunction about getting them damp while you read in the tub or getting part of your lunch on them. However, cheap used copies might be available. I used to be able to pick up hardcovers from various era for $3 or so, but that was in the 1970s.
