Belshazzar: A Novel

In the final days of Babylon, as the armies of Cyrus gather at the gates, a young soldier named Ramose is swept into the heart of an empire in collapse — and into the orbit of Belshazzar, the last king, whose fate was written in fire on the wall of his own palace. H. Rider Haggard's final novel is a magnificent closing statement: intimate in its characterisation, vast in its scope.

This Squire Press annotated edition includes historical and biblical notes illuminating the real world behind Haggard's fiction — from the archaeology of ancient Babylon to the Book of Daniel itself, and the historical figure of Cyrus the Great.