H. Rider Haggard 1 hr 20 min read

On the Great White Road that souls travel after death, a wandering Mahatma meets the ghost of a hunted hare, and hears its gentle, sorrowful tale of the shooting, the coursing, and the hunt.

H. Rider Haggard's 1911 book is a tender, allegorical dream-fantasy and impassioned plea against cruelty to animals. Poignant, unusual, heartfelt. Read it for a striking departure from the adventure master, a dreamlike parable of a hunted hare's suffering, a moving argument for compassion toward the beasts we torment.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 20 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).