Allan Quatermain: the Zulu Trilogy: Marie, Child of Storm, & Finished

Allan Quatermain #5, 6, 9

by H. Rider Haggard

Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a century, spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators. These three novels-Marie, Child of Storm, and Finished-form the Zulu Trilogy in which the Zulu wizard, Zikali, gains his revenge on the Zulu nation and its king, Cetawayo. Here are tales of magic, revenge, and something darker and far more sinister.

Genres: Fiction

520 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1917

About the author

Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE 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.

His breakout novel was King Solomon's Mines (1885), which was to be the first in a series telling of the multitudinous adventures of its protagonist, Allan Quatermain.

Haggard was made a Knight Bachelor in 1912 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Conservative candidate for the Eastern division of Norfolk in 1895. The locality of Rider, British Columbia, was named in his memory.

Reviews

[Shashoto Sharif · Rating 5 out of 5]

সবসময়ই আমি এই সিরিজের মহাভক্ত,ট্রিলোজির প্রথমটাই বেশি ভাল,তবে পরেরগুলোও খারাপ না।

[Stormrider · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well done movies of the trilogy stories would be more interesting than the read versions. With the caveate that the movies be better than “King Soloman’s Mines” starring Richard Chamberlain. The writing style was very much late 20th and early 21st Centuries. “Marie” and “Child of Storm” were much better than “Finished”. Anything to do with the Zulus and their wars with the English and the Boers is fascinating. In “Finished", however, the writing devolved into witchcraft and the politics of Zulu society. Very uninspiring word craft and story telling.

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

I still need to read the first book, "She." But this and the second were great reads, very adventuresome.
PMZ