- Louis Henri Boussenard
Louis Henri Boussenard (
4 October ,1847 –11 September ,1911 ) was a French author ofadventure novel s, dubbed the FrenchRider Haggard during his lifetime but better known today inEastern Europe than in Francophone countries. As a measure of his popularity, forty volumes of his collected works were published inImperial Russia in 1911.A physician by profession, he travelled throughout the French colonies, especially in
Africa . He was drafted during theFranco-Prussian War but soon capitulated to the Prussian soldiers, a bitter experience that could explain a nationalist flavour present in many of his novels. Some of his books demonstrate a certain prejudice against Britons and Americans, a fact which likely contributed to his obscurity and lack of translations in the English-speaking world.The author's picaresque humour flourished in his earliest books, "À travers Australie: Les dix millions de l'Opossum rouge" (1879), "Le tour du monde d'un gamin de Paris" (1880), "Les Robinsons de la Guyane" (1882), and "Aventures périlleuses de trois Français au pays des diamants" (1884, set in a mysterious cavern underneath the
Victoria Falls ).Boussenard's best-known book, "Le Capitaine Casse-Cou" (1901), was set at the time of the Boer War. "L'île en feu" (1898) fictionalized
Cuba 's struggle for independence. Aspiring to emulateJules Verne , Boussenard also turned out severalsci-fi novels, notably "Les secrets de monsieur Synthèse" (1888) and "Dix mille ans dans un bloc de glace" (1890).ee also
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Alexandre Dumas, père
*H. Rider Haggard
*Emilio Salgari
*G. A. Henty
*Karl May
*Baroness Orczy
*Rafael Sabatini
*Samuel Shellabarger
*Lawrence Schoonover
*Jules Verne
*Frank Yerby
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