Belshazzar (novel)

Belshazzar
Cover of 1st edition
Author H. Rider Haggard
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Publisher Stanley Paul & Co., Ltd.
Publication date
 1930
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages 285 pages

Belshazzar is a historical novel by H Rider Haggard set in Ancient Babylon. It was written in 1924,[1] and was just finished at the time of his death.[2]

Publication history

The novel was published posthumously.[3] It was refused by Haggard's publisher Hutchinson's, and the first U.K. edition was published by Stanley Paul & Co., Ltd., London, in September 1930.[4] It was reissued in 1931.[4]

The first U.S. edition was published by Doubleday, Doran and Co., New York, the same year.[1][4] A trade paperback edition was issued by Wildside Press in March 2001.[4]

Plot

The Egyptian prince Ramose seeks to rescue his wife Myra from the King of Babylon.

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Belshazzar" at [visualhaggard.org.
  2. ↑ "The Wings of Romance". The Brisbane Courier. National Library of Australia. 4 August 1928. p. 25. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "RIDER HAGGARD'S LAST STORY, "BELSHAZZAR."". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 7 November 1930. p. 7. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Belshazzar title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database


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