Doctor Therne

Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, William Orpen and Algernon Talmage. A doctor makes his career on an anti-vaccination platform, wins a seat in Parliament on it, and is in office when smallpox comes to the town. Haggard wrote this in 1898 as a deliberate polemic, and it is the only book of his with no adventure in it at all. The last chapters are as grim as anythin...