She and Allan
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 Dust-jacket from She and Allan |
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| Author(s) | H. Rider Haggard |
| Illustrator | Enos B. Comstock (frontispiece) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Ayesha Series |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Longmans |
| Publication date | 1920 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 392 pp. |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | Ayesha |
| Followed by | Wisdom's Daughter |
She and Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon's Mines.
Its significance was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the sixth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in September 1975.
[edit] Plot
While travelling through Africa, Allan Quartermain hears about a great white sorceress, She Who Must Be Obeyed, who rules in a hidden kingdom.
Through her contacts, in spirit, She learns of Allan, and hopes that he is the reincarnation of the love, for whom She has waited, for more than two thousand years.
But, his coming to the hidden kingdom of Kor, where She waits for the return of her love, is marred by war.
There is another who has bathed in The Flame of Life, more dangerous than She, spurring the people on to war and ruin.
Although, She cannot die; and, commands men, and spirits, and the elements themselves; everything around her can be destroyed. She seeks Allan's help in the war, with the people of Kor.
In the end, She knows that Allan is not the love She waits for. Although, he doesn't believe in such things himself, he reminds her of old Captain, from Ancient Egypt, as retold, in Wisdom's Daughter, the last book in the Ayesha Series, enough that She even suggests he might be his reincarnation.
[edit] References
- Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. pp. 137.
- Salmonson, Jessica Amanda. "An Annotated Bibliography of H. Rider Haggard's Fantasies in 1st Editions, Alphabetically Arranged". http://www.violetbooks.com/haggard-bib.html. Retrieved 2007-04-20.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. pp. 199. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
[edit] External links
- She and Allan at Project Gutenberg
- She and Allan publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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