'When the World Shook' is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, printed in 1919. This is a model text which notifies the terror of a ghost town. There are three friends_ Arbuthnot, the leader, is a man of millions looking for meaning in the world. Bastin is a priest who believes in the progressive explanation of the Bible. Bickley is a doctor, a man of science and who only believes what can be proved. It is an uncommon defective piece of early science fiction, secured with colonial anthropology, religion, philosophy, humour and romance. This novel is about rebirth love.