She and Allan (Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library, Vol 6) [Hardcover]

H. Rider Haggard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1980 | Series: Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library, Vol 6

Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (1856-1925) was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private 'crammer' in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office, for which he never sat. Haggard's father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Lieutenant-Governor of Natal Sir Henry Bulwer. Heavily influenced by the larger-than-life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa, the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social issues reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. Haggard is most famous as the author of the best-selling novel King Solomon's Mines (1885). Amongst his other works are She (1887), Allan Quatermain (1888), Eric Brighteyes (1891) and Ayesha (1895).

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 303 pages
• Publisher: Borgo Pr (June 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0893705055
• ISBN-13: 978-0893705053
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,743,525 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ought to be more fun than it is..., May 18, 2000

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Peter A. Greene (Franklin, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: She and Allan (She trilogy) (Paperback)

Haggard combines his two most bankable stars-- Ayesha and Quartermain-- and it ought to be twice as much fun. The problem ultimately is that we know from page one that nothing is going to happen that might conflict with any of the history established for these characters in their other books. Particularly in Ayesha's case that's mighty limiting-- we know that Allan is going to pass through her life without making any particular mark, because all the significant people in her life are already accounted for. Consequently, the work doesn't really show anything new about either character, and instead of two great prizefighters duking it out, we get a couple of characters dancing around trying not to make a mark on each other. Still the basic two-fisted Anglo-Saxon hambone adventure that Haggard does so well, but there's a little less zip in this outing.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Material World versus The Spirit, August 16, 2007

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Glen V. Mcintyre (Kingfisher, ok. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: She And Allan (Paperback)

Allan quatermain is the iconic white hunter. He can and has tracked his way across Africa into lands unknown to most white men.

She (also known as "She Who Must be Obeyed) is the eternal seductress, the half goddess/half woman who cannot die. SHE is the ultimate in the spirit world.

Allan, perhaps, can be seen as the ultimate in the world we call reality.

She and Allan plays out this conflict between the material and spirit against the backdrop of the adventure of pushing into unknown darkest Africa.

Not as well known, or as well done as "King Solomon's Mines" or "She" -

then of course few books are-this is a worthwhile sequel to both.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The early adventures of Allan Quatermain and Umslopogaas, February 18, 2008

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Aaron Crosby "dantesguitar" (Evansville, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: She And Allan (Paperback)

In She and Allan, we see the coming together of three of the most exciting characters in all of H. Rider Haggard's novels. The ever intrepid Allan meets the great and grim Umslopogaas of the Axe, son of Chaka, and there is born an interesting and in some ways touching friendship between them, as they have both dealt with many of the same troubles and loss over the years. And of course they meet with the immortal SHE, Ayesha, whom they seek in order to see their loved ones that have passed the realm of death. Many of the same elements from much of the Allan Quatermain body of work is here. But it serves to tie the many things from the different novels together. Such as the friendship between Umslopogaas and Allan that we see in the novel Allan Quatermain. It also offers further insight into the origin's of Umslopogaas's great axe, Inkosikaas, which is in a way a Zulu version of Excalibur. A fantastic novel for anyone who enjoys Haggard's body of work. Great to read especially after reading Haggard's novel of the early life of Umslopogaas, Nada the Lily.