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novelnovelThe Mahatma and the Hare, A Dream StoryThe Mahatma and the Hare, A Dream Storyhttps://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/haggard/editions/images/000/000/50/original/theMahatmaCover.jpg?1375836556The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story is a romance novella that dramatizes Haggard’s belief in animal souls. In this spiritual tale, a hare tells an Eastern mystic, or Mahatma, about the terror of being hunted. Long...<span style="font-style:italic;">The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story</span> is a romance novella that dramatizes Haggard’s belief in animal souls. In this spiritual tale, a hare tells an Eastern mystic, or Mahatma, about the terror of being hunted. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, published the first edition of <span style="font-style:italic;">TMATH</span> on 16 October 1911. Illustrators <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/35">W. T. Horton</a> and <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/22">H. M. Brock</a> each contributed six full-page prints. Longmans issued this edition in a printing of 5,000 copies. Henry Holt, New York, used identical illustrations for an edition published in October 1911. <h4>Further Reading</h4> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Haggard, H. Rider. <span style="font-style:italic;">The Days of My Life, An Autobiography</span>. 2 Vols. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1926. II: 166-67. Print.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Pocock, Tom. <span style="font-style:italic;">Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire</span>. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 155. Print.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Whatmore, D.E.. <span style="font-style:italic;">H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography</span>. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F38, 54. Print.</p>
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The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story is a romance novella that dramatizes Haggard’s belief in animal souls. In this spiritual tale, a hare tells an Eastern mystic, or Mahatma, about the terror of being hunted. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, published the first edition of TMATH on 16 October 1911. Illustrators W. T. Horton and H. M. Brock each contributed six full-page prints. Longmans issued this edition in a printing of 5,000 copies. Henry Holt, New York, used identical illustrations for an edition published in October 1911.

Further Reading


Haggard, H. Rider. The Days of My Life, An Autobiography. 2 Vols. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1926. II: 166-67. Print.


Pocock, Tom. Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 155. Print.


Whatmore, D.E.. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F38, 54. Print.

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