Joan Haste
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1895
English
- Joan Haste
- Samuel Rock Declares Himself
- The Beginnings of Fate
- The Home-coming of Henry Graves
- Levingers visit Rosham
- Mr. Levinger Puts a Case
- A Proposal and a Difference
- Two Conversations
- Mutual Admiration
- Azrael's Wing
- Ellen Grows Alarmed
- Ellen Finds a Remedy
- A Meeting by the Mere
- Sowing the Wind
- The Firstfruits
- Fortiter in re
- Between duty and duty
- Congratulations
- Righteous indignation
- "Let it remain open"
- A Luncheon Party
- An Interlude
- A New Departure
- Messrs. Black and Parker
- "I Forbid You"
- A Love Letter
- Luck at Last
- The Price of Innocent Blood
- Through the Valley of the Shadow
- Reaping the Whirlwind
- The Gate of Paradise
- The Closing of the Gate
- The Gate of Hell
- The Opening of the Gate
- Disenchantment
- The Desire of Death - And the Fear of Him
- The Truth, the Whole Truth
- A Ghost of the Past
- Husband and Wife
- Full Measure, Pressed Down and Running Over
A romantic melodrama and one of H. Rider Haggard's most poignant love stories. Joan Haste, a beautiful but illegitimate woman whose mother died when she was a few years old (and her father is unknown) is raised by her terrible, self-serving aunt and uncle. Joan meets navy Captain Henry Graves in the ruins of a crumbling church after Joan has spotted a jackdaw nest up on the wall of a falling-down bell tower and is unable to reach it. Henry, who is passing by and is immediately taken in by Joan, gallantly offers to climb up and get the baby birds, but ends up falling and breaking his leg. Joan is injured when she bravely tries to catch him to keep him from falling to his death on some iron spikes. They fall in love and here starts this haunting story.
(Summary by Elroi Shelley)
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