The Brethren

By H. Rider Haggard and Henry Rider Haggard

Book Overview

Salah-ed-din, Commander of the Faithful, the king Strong to Aid, Sovereign of the East, sat at night in his palace at Damascus and brooded on the wonderful ways of God, by Whom he had been lifted to his high estate. He remembered how, when he was but small in the eyes of men, Nour-ed-din, king of Syria, forced him to accompany his uncle, Shirkuh, to Egypt, whither he went, "like one driven to his death," and how, against his own will, there he rose to greatness. He thought of his father, the wise Ayoub, and the brethren with whom he was brought up, all of them dead now save one; and of his sisters, whom he had cherished. Most of all did he think of her, Zobeide, who had been stolen away by the knight whom she loved even to the loss of her own soul-yes, by the English friend of his youth, his father's prisoner, Sir Andrew D'Arcy, who, led astray by passion, had done him and his house this grievous wrong.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 151427731X
• ISBN13: 9781514277317
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

'TWO LOVERS BY THE MAIDEN SATE'.................WONDERFUL

THIS STIRRING NOVEL BY SIR H HAGGARD IS SET IN THE CLIMACTIC MONTHS BEFORE THE OPENING OF THE THIRD CRUSADE,CALLED THE KING'S CRUSADE.THE BRETHREN IS A CLASSIC TALE OF LOVE AND CHIVALRY,UNFOLDING AMIDST THE TOUCHING STORY OF TWO KNIGHTS WHO ARE IN LOVE WITH THE SAME MAIDEN.THE DEVOTION OF THESE MEN ARE TESTED WHEN THEIR BELOVED IS CARRIED AWAY AGAINST HER WILL TO PALESTINE AND EVENTUALLY TO THE COURT OF THE FAMOUS MUSLIM LEADER,SALADINE.THEIR QUEST TO RECLAIM ROSAMUNDE,THE KIDNAPPED MAIDEN,THRUSTS THE BRETHREN INTO A WEB OF INTRIGUE AND TREACHERY THAT REMAINS UNBROKEN UNTIL THEY HAVE ENDURED EPIC CRUSADER BATTLES AND A BLOODY SEIGE OF JERUSALEM!!THIS IS ONE OF SIR HAGGARRD'S GRANDEST NOVELS!!!