When the World Shook

by H. Rider Haggard

28 chapters12h 37mEnglish1918

About this book

A fictional memoir of Humphrey Arbuthnot of Devonshire, we are taken on a voyage to the island of Orofena, in the South Seas, together with Bickley, the servant Bastin and the spaniel Tommy. It is a land of adventure and danger, the result of which eventually leads to the author's death. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Chapters (28)

1Arbuthnot Describes Himself

1705

2Bastin and Bickley

1288

3Natalie

1219

4Death and Departure

1321

5The Cyclone

1716

6Land

1391

7The Orofenans

1600

8Bastin Attempts the Martyr’s Crown

1845

9The Island in the Lake

1724

10The Dwellers in the Tomb

1580

11Resurrection

1732

12Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Years!

1860

13Oro Speaks and Bastin Argues

1530

14The Under-world

1611

15Oro in His House

1180

16Visions of the Past

1838

17Yva Explains

2121

18The Accident

2282

19The Proposals of Bastin and Bickley

1566

20Oro and Arbuthnot Travel by Night

2270

21Love’s Eternal Altar

1549

22The Command

1673

23In the Temple of Fate

2277

24The Chariot of the Pit

2227

25Sacrifice

1645

26Tommy

1663

27Bastin Discovers a Resemblance

829

28NOTE By J. R. Bickley, M.R.C.S.

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When the World Shook

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