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What is love worth in a world where duty rules your choices and honour can cost your life?
In Red Eve, H. Rider Haggard brings adventure and romance to fourteenth-century England. Knights, feuds, abbeys and sudden violence shape the world of a love that meets stubborn opposition. Birth and duty carry great weight here. Choosing whom to love means facing a society where a person's life is never entirely their own.
Faithful friends stand beside love in this tale of daring and loyalty. Haggard explores the strength of bonds under strain, in a land ruled by great lords and church power. Over this medieval world hangs the shadow of the Black Death, giving questions of honour, devotion and survival a deeper urgency.
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- Love against opposition Follow a romance whose stakes reach beyond affection into duty, loyalty and personal choice.
- A hard medieval world Enter an England of manor houses, village churches, powerful lords and dangerous feuds.
- Friendship under strain Discover why faithful companions matter in a story where honour can demand so much.
- The shadow of plague Feel the threat of the Black Death hanging over an already troubled world.
- Daring and strong feeling Experience Haggard's gift for pace in an adventure that gives loyalty and love real weight.
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- Love that meets stubborn opposition
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- The shadow of the plague
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by H. Rider Haggard· 1911
Lovers face opposition and violence in fourteenth-century England.
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A medieval England of hard choices
Haggard sets his tale in the later Middle Ages, when England was a place of manor houses, village churches, great lords and church power. Society was built on loyalty, birth and duty, and a person's choices were never wholly their own. Families were bound to land and to overlords, and a quarrel between two houses could shake a whole district.
This is the kind of world in which Haggard likes to place his heroes. He sets private feeling against public rule, so that love and friendship are tested by pressure from family, rank and faith. Readers of his other books will know the method. He chooses a vivid age, gives it danger, and lets courage show itself in action rather than in long speeches.
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H. Rider Haggard
1856–1925 · English adventure novelist
Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist. He was born in Norfolk, lived in southern Africa from 1875 to 1881, and later settled in Norfolk. He wrote King Solomon’s Mines (1885), She (1887), and Beatrice (1890). He also wrote about agriculture and rural life. He died in London.
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What is Red Eve about?
Red Eve is a medieval adventure by H. Rider Haggard about love, loyalty and danger in fourteenth century England, set against the coming of the Black Death.
Who wrote Red Eve?
It was written by H. Rider Haggard, the English author of King Solomon's Mines and She, who made his name with fast, vivid tales of daring and fate.
Is Red Eve a true story?
No, it is a work of historical fiction. The setting, including the Black Death in medieval England, is real history, but the tale and its people are Haggard's invention.
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