H. Rider Haggard - The Ivory Child: "Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!"

It is now more than fifty years since the occurrences which I am about to relate caused a strange sensation. The fashionable world, however, is no recorder of traditions; the memory of selfishness seldom reaches far; and the events which occasionally disturb the polite monotony of its pleasant and heartless progress, however stamped with the characters of misery and horror, scarcely outlive the gossip of a season. The appetite for scandal, or for horror, has been sated; the incident can yield no more of interest or novelty; curiosity, frustrated by impenetrable mystery, gives over the pursuit in despair; the tale has ceased to be new, grows stale and flat; and so, in a few years, inquiry subsides into indifference.

• | Author: Sir H Rider Haggard
• | Publisher: Horse's Mouth
• | Publication Date: Dec 01, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1785438093
• | ISBN-13: 9781785438097