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Marie (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Name: Marie (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Author: H. Rider Haggard
ISBN: 9781411441682

by H. Rider Haggard

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Overview

Set against the background of the Boer War, this 1912 installment of Haggard’s "Zulu Trilogy” tells how adventurer extraordinaire Allan Quatermain met and wooed his first wife, Marie Marais. Taking off with a terrific battle and finishing with a scene of deep emotion, this book is "a tender, beautiful, and moving love story.”—The New York Times.

Synopsis

Set against the background of the Boer War, this 1912 installment of Haggard’s “Zulu Trilogy” tells how adventurer extraordinaire Allan Quatermain met and wooed his first wife, Marie Marais. Taking off with a terrific battle and finishing with a scene of deep emotion, this book is “a tender, beautiful, and moving love story.”—The New York Times.

About the Author, H. Rider Haggard

Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a British civil servant and novelist whose tales of mystery, romance, and rip-roaring adventure deeply influenced subsequent generations of writers. Haggard is most famous as the author of the novel King Solomon’s Mines, whose Allan Quartermain was the inspiration for the character Indian Jones in the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies.