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:	9783958646131
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	09/23/2016
Series:	Classics To Go
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	681 KB

About the Author

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved in agricultural reform and improvement in the British Empire. “When the World Shook” is a novel by H. Rider Haggard written in 1919. It deals with the adventures of Bastin, Bickley, and Arbuthnot as they travel to the south sea island of Orofena The story begins as the main character, Humphrey Arbuthnot—a writer of adventure stories—is married to his wife Natalie. Shortly there after she claims that she is going to die soon even after she has been given a clean bill of health from their doctor, Bastin. Right as Natalie dies she tells Arbuthnot that shortly after she dies he'll want to travel somewhere and that is where the two shall meet again. Natalie dies, and shortly there after Arbuthnot has a sudden urge to travel to the Pacific islands. He gets on a ship with two friends, Bickley, a doctor, Bastin, a minister, and Arbuthnot's dog, Tommy. The ship is then taken by a cyclone after all the crew abandons ship save for the three adventurers. When they awake they find themselves shipwrecked on the south sea island of Orofena.(Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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