Lysbeth, A Tale of the Dutch by H. Rider Haggard, Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Action & Adventure, Literary, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology - Tapa blanda

Reseña del editor

"Light the candles, for this place grows dark -- and in its gloom I see the ghosts of all my dead!"

On this day of the ice-fête, smartly dressed skaters fill the frozen canals off the Rhine. Lysbeth van Hout speeds happily down the canal, surrounded by the lovely winter landscape of Leyden with its lofty churches of St. Peter and St. Pancras in the near distance, windmills spotting the snow-covered landscape farther away.

Then someone stops her -- Martha the Mare, with a harrowing look, to give Lysbeth this warning: "Listen! -- that unless they cast out the cursed Spaniard, a day shall come when the folk of Leyden must perish by thousands of hunger behind those walls!"

Biografía del autor

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.