1928 Full Alligator Leather H. Rider Haggard She King Solomon's Mines Quatermain
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1928 FULL ALLIGATOR LEATHER H. RIDER HAGGARD SHE KING SOLOMON'S MINES QUATERMAIN. From 1928, bound in full alligator leather, this is The Works of H. Rider Haggard, as published by Walter J. Black, New York. Whether or not this is real alligator or just regular leather embossed like alligator skin. From 1928, bound in full alligator leather, this is The Works of H. Rider Haggard, as published by Walter J. Black, New York. Whether or not this is real alligator or just regular leather embossed like alligator skin. Sized 8x5 inches, double column format, featuring the complete works, King Solomon's Mines, She, Alan Quatermain, and Maiwa's Revenge. The first three make up a great trio of Lost City classics, the basis for many movies. Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature and including the eighteen Allan Quatermain stories beginning with King Solomon's Mines, continue to be popular and influential.Psychoanalyst Carl Jung considered Ayesha, the female protagonist of She, to be a manifestation of the anima. Her epithet "She Who Must Be Obeyed" is used by British author John Mortimer in his Rumpole of the Bailey series as the lead character's private name for his wife, Hilda, before whom he trembles at home (despite the fact that he is a barrister with some skill in court). Haggard's Lost World genre influenced popular American and English pulp writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Talbot Mundy, Philip José Farmer, and Abraham Merritt. Allan Quatermain, the adventure hero of eighteen novels and short stories beginning with King Solomon's Mines (1885), was a template for the American character Indiana Jones. Quatermain has gained recent popularity thanks to being a main character in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic book series and movie. Graham Greene, in an essay about Haggard, stated, "Enchantment is just what this writer exercised; he fixed pictures in our minds that thirty years have been unable to wear away." Haggard was praised in 1965 by Roger Lancelyn Green, one of the Oxford Inklings, as a writer of a consistently high level of "literary skill and sheer imaginative power" and a co-originator with Robert Louis Stevenson of the Age of the Story Tellers.
