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When the World Shook / Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot

Chapter 3: DEDICATION
By H. Rider Haggard
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Three friends survive a cataclysmic storm and are drawn to a remote land where the remnants of an ancient civilization and its mysterious leaders reveal buried rites and secrets. Their explorations lead them into subterranean chambers, prophetic visions, and encounters with preserved survivors that raise questions of resurrection, sacrifice, and lasting love. The narrative interweaves adventurous escape and discovery with reflective passages on fate, faith, and the endurance of human passions, moving between action-driven episodes and contemplative examinations of how ancient beliefs and personal loyalties persist across vast stretches of time.

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Title: When the World Shook

Author: H. Rider Haggard

Release date: June 1, 1998 [eBook #1368]
Most recently updated: October 29, 2024

Language: English

Credits: Anthony Matonak and David Widger

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When the World Shook

Being an Account of the Great Adventure
of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot

by H. Rider Haggard

Contents

CHAPTER I. Arbuthnot Describes Himself
CHAPTER II. Bastin and Bickley
CHAPTER III. Natalie
CHAPTER IV. Death and Departure
CHAPTER V. The Cyclone
CHAPTER VI. Land
CHAPTER VII. The Orofenans
CHAPTER VIII. Bastin Attempts the Martyr’s Crown
CHAPTER IX. The Island in the Lake
CHAPTER X. The Dwellers in the Tomb
CHAPTER XI. Resurrection
CHAPTER XII. Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Years!
CHAPTER XIII. Oro Speaks and Bastin Argues
CHAPTER XIV. The Under-world
CHAPTER XV. Oro in His House
CHAPTER XVI. Visions of the Past
CHAPTER XVII. Yva Explains
CHAPTER XVIII. The Accident
CHAPTER XIX. The Proposals of Bastin and Bickley
CHAPTER XX. Oro and Arbuthnot Travel by Night
CHAPTER XXI. Love’s Eternal Altar
CHAPTER XXII. The Command
CHAPTER XXIII. In the Temple of Fate
CHAPTER XXIV. The Chariot of the Pit
CHAPTER XXV. Sacrifice
CHAPTER XXVI. Tommy
CHAPTER XXVII. Bastin Discovers a Resemblance
NOTE By J. R. Bickley, M.R.C.S.

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.