Jess
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Short OverviewSir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved in agricultural reform and improvement in the British Empire. Set in nineteenth-century South Africa during a time of conflict, deprivation and hardship, the tale “Jess” is something of a departure from the typical formula of H. Rider Haggard's novels. Following the travails of a pa...
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- Jess
- First Published 1887. TO MY WIFE
- JESS.
- CHAPTER I. JOHN HAS AN ADVENTURE
- CHAPTER II. HOW THE SISTERS CAME TO MOOIFONTEIN
- CHAPTER III. MR. FRANK MULLER
- CHAPTER IV. BESSIE IS ASKED IN MARRIAGE
- CHAPTER V. DREAMS ARE FOOLISHNESS
- CHAPTER VI. THE STORM BREAKS
- CHAPTER VII. LOVE’S YOUNG DREAM
- CHAPTER VIII. JESS GOES TO PRETORIA
- CHAPTER IX. JANTJE’S STORY
- CHAPTER X. JOHN HAS AN ESCAPE
- CHAPTER XI. ON THE BRINK
- CHAPTER XII. OVER IT
- CHAPTER XIII. FRANK MULLER SHOWS HIS HAND
- CHAPTER XIV. JOHN TO THE RESCUE
- CHAPTER XV. A ROUGH JOURNEY
- CHAPTER XVI. PRETORIA
- CHAPTER XVII. THE TWELFTH OF FEBRUARY
- CHAPTER XVIII. AND AFTER
- CHAPTER XIX. HANS COETZEE COMES TO PRETORIA
- CHAPTER XX. THE GREAT MAN
- CHAPTER XXI. JESS GETS A PASS
- CHAPTER XXII. ON THE ROAD
- CHAPTER XXIII. IN THE DRIFT OF THE VAAL
- CHAPTER XXIV. THE SHADOW OF DEATH
- CHAPTER XXV. MEANWHILE
- CHAPTER XXVI. FRANK MULLER’S FAMILIAR
- CHAPTER XXVII. SILAS IS CONVINCED
- CHAPTER XXVIII. BESSIE IS PUT TO THE QUESTION
- CHAPTER XXIX. CONDEMNED TO DEATH
- CHAPTER XXX. “WE MUST PART, JOHN”
- CHAPTER XXXI. JESS FINDS A FRIEND
- CHAPTER XXXII. HE SHALL DIE
- CHAPTER XXXIII. VENGEANCE
- CHAPTER XXXIV. TANTA COETZEE TO THE RESCUE
- CHAPTER XXXV. THE CONCLUSION OF THE MATTER
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