Jess, Henry Rider Haggard

Jess, a novel by sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925), in English. Published by Smith Elder & co in 1895, 335 pages. The book is old and a bit worn, see photo 6.
Jess Croft lives with sister Bessie and old Silas, a farmer raising ostriches on the great Transvaal veldt. Jess is a reserved and aloof, with a quietness about her brought on by the misfortunes of her young childhood, when she and Bessie arrived motherless from England to South Africa. As a novelist, Haggard is known primarily for his adventure novels. Among his most widely read and critically acclaimed novels are King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain and She. After his publication of She, Haggard wrote at least one novel a year every year until his death in 1925.
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