Allan's Wife (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): An Allan Quartermain Novel

by H. Rider Haggard

Overview

The third novel H. Rider Haggard’s celebrated Allan Quatermain series, this tale is not exactly about Quartermain’s wife, at least not to begin with. Allan’s Wife tells more stories of Quartermain’s time in South Africa—presenting his observations about two dueling witch doctors, his father’s death, and, eventually, the fate of his wife, Stella.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411451919
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	04/12/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	188
File size:	235 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a British civil servant and novelist whose tales of mystery, romance, and rip-roaring adventure deeply influenced subsequent generations of writers.  Haggard is most famous as the author of the novel King Solomon’s Mines, whose Allan Quartermain was the inspiration for the character Indiana Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies.