If Haggard?one of the greatest adventure writers of all time?is
remembered now, it is for his novels featuring Allan Quatermain, a
heroic adventurer whose exploits in Africa form the most important
sequence of Haggard's books. Quatermain's adventures are chronicled
in such novels as King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quaterman, She, and
11 others.However, despite the importance of the Quaterman books,
many of Haggard's other novels are interesting in their own right.
Nada the Lily is the first of four books about the Zulus, all of
which are excellent. Eric Brighteyes is rich, fantasy-laden
Icelandic saga. The World's Desire (written with Andrew Lang) is a
fantasy about the characters in The Odyssey. And there are numerous
other titles (many of them reprinted by Wildside Press as part of
the Wildside Fantasy Classics series) which bring undeservingly
lost Haggard books back into print. Mr. Meeson's Will is just such
a book.Here we get a glimpse of what H. Rider Haggard must have
gone through as a starting author, as he slyly takes the reader
inside the British publishing industry, where greed and hack
writers (he calls them ?tame writers?) are prominent. One can
easily see how writers of the day could be ruined by publishers as
ruthless and unscrupulous as Mr. Meeson. Luckily Haggard could call
upon his years of legal training in search of the appropriate
remedy for his heroine's tragic plight!
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