The Brethren (Haggard novel)



The Brethren is a 1904 historical novel by H. Rider Haggard set during the Third Crusade. The Brethren features Saladin and the Assassins as characters.

Modern criticism
Robert Irwin dismissed The Brethern as "Haggard's preposterous farrago". Irwin also criticized the novel's depiction of Chivalry, saying that in The Brethern "Chivalry and the public-school ethos are hardly distinguishable."