She and Allan

by H. Rider Haggard

Overview

“An imaginative, entertaining adventure story.”-E.F. Bleiler

“Enchantment is just what this writer exercised; he fixed pictures in our minds that thirty years have been unable to wear away.”-Graham Green

She and Allan is one of H. Rider Haggard’s most exciting novels of adventure and romance. In bringing together two of his most compelling characters, Allan Quatermain, the quirky English Big-Game hunter and explorer, and the seductive and iconic supernatural African Queen Ayesha, or popularly know as “she-who-must-be-obeyed”, Haggard has created one of the most exciting stories in his body of work.

When Allan Quatermain seeks out the Zulu witch-doctor Zikali in the south of Africa to determine if he can communicate with the dead, he is instructed to travel to a lost kingdom deep in the interior of Africa. Zikali reveals that the truth of his inquiry will only be revealed if Quatermain delivers a message to a mysterious and supernatural white sorceress who rules over a tribe living in the ruins of an ancient city. Quatermain sets out on a perilous journey through uncharted lands full of cannibals, wild beasts, and treacherous brushes with death. When he finally reaches the rubble of the lost kingdom of Kôr, he is summoned into the presence of the immortal Queen Ayesha, “she-who-must-be-obeyed,” and is requested to lead her army into battle against the dreaded kingdom of Rezu. A spellbinding tale of supernatural fiction, She and Allan is one of the most intriguing and exotic works of early 20th century Fantasy.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783752301571
Publisher:	Bod Third Party Titles
Publication date:	07/19/2020
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a British writer, scholar, and agricultural reformist. He was a civil servant in Africa as a young man, which was the basis of his history of southern Africa, Cetywayo and His White Neighbors (1882). His first two novels were unsuccessful , yet his third novel, the African adventure story King Solomon’s Mines (1885), was a literary triumph, and is considered to be the first “lost world” narrative. His writing had great influence on Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, and Rudyard Kipling among others. His novel She is one of the best-selling books of all time.

Table of Contents

I.	The Talisman	1
II.	The Messengers	19
III.	Umslopogaas of the Axe	33
IV.	The Lion and the Axe	50
V.	Inez	66
VI.	The Sea-Cow Hunt	79
VII.	The Oath	95
VIII.	Pursuit	112
IX.	The Swamp	128
X.	The Attack	146
XI.	Through the Mountain Wall	160
XII.	The White Witch	173
XIII.	Allan Hears a Strange Tale	188
XIV.	Allan Misses Opportunity	209
XV.	Robertson is Lost	223
XVI.	Allan's Vision	244
XVII.	The Midnight Battle	258
XVIII.	The Slaying of Rezu	271
XIX.	The Spell	288
XX.	The Gate of Death	307
XXI.	The Lesson	323
XXII.	Ayesha's Farewell	342
XXIII.	What Umslopogaas Saw	355
XXIV.	Umslopogaas Wears the Great Medicine	371
XXV.	Allan Delivers the Message	388