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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.
What you’ll discover
- 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.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy sword fights, feuding families and star-crossed lovers will be at home here, as will anyone drawn to medieval England, the battle of Crecy and stories where fate walks beside the heroes.
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- Two cousins meet on frozen ground
- Fire, a duel and an icy river
- A stolen letter and the House of Murgh
- Penance, an ambush and a shooting match
- A trap, a potion and a false wedding
- Crecy, a borrowed helmet and a wasted mercy
- Venice, a drifting galley and the Man in the yellow cap
- Avignon under the plague
- Love, fate and the plague in the telling
Who’s who
- Hugh de CressiA merchant's youngest son and a skilled swordsman who loves Eve and swears to prove himself worthy of her.
- Eve ClaveringCalled Red Eve for the color she wears, a proud, dark-haired heiress who will not be sold in marriage.
- Grey DickHugh's gaunt, ash-haired archer, blunt and loyal, whose black bow almost never misses.
- Sir Andrew ArnoldAn old Templar knight turned priest, Hugh's godfather and Eve's teacher, who has seen strange things in the East.
- Sir Edmund AcourA charming French count of many titles who spies for France and is determined to marry Eve.
- Father NicholasAcour's cunning priest and physician, who offers poisons and potions to get his master what he wants.
- Sir John ClaveringEve's stern father, who hates the de Cressis and pushes her toward a rich marriage.
- MurghA strange, powerful figure from the East, called the Gateway of the Gods, who travels west with the plague.
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Red Eve
by H. Rider Haggard · 1911
A merchant's son and a red-cloaked heiress run from fire and a French traitor while the Black Death sails west.
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Red Eve is a medieval adventure by H. Rider Haggard, the English storyteller best known for his tales of hidden African kingdoms.
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Two cousins meet on frozen ground
The book opens far away in the East. A man in a red cloak, led by a dancing woman, boards a ship with crimson sails as a plague lifts from a great city. A voice from the dark tells the crowd that this man, Murgh, serves a Master, and that life and death are not in human hands. Then the story turns to England.
On a bitter February evening in 1346, Hugh de Cressi meets his cousin Eve Clavering in the Blythburgh marshes near Dunwich. It is his twenty-third birthday. Eve wears red, as she always does, and the whole county calls her Red Eve. The two families share a great-grandmother, but the Claverings hold the land while the de Cressis have grown rich on wool, fishing fleets and ferry tolls.
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What is Red Eve by H. Rider Haggard about?
It follows Hugh de Cressi, a merchant's son, and Eve Clavering, a proud heiress, as they fight a family feud and a treacherous French count. Their story crosses England, Crecy, Venice and Avignon as the Black Death spreads.
Who is Murgh in Red Eve?
Murgh is a mysterious figure from the East called the Gateway of the Gods. He appears as a calm man in a red and yellow cap, brings the plague westward, and calls himself the Helper who serves a higher Master.
Is Red Eve a true story?
It is a novel set against real events, including the battle of Crecy in 1346 and the Black Death. The lovers, Grey Dick and Murgh are invented, while King Edward III and the Prince of Wales appear as characters.
The author
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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