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For readers who love Victorian and Edwardian adventure, lost-world settings and stories of treasure and risk, with divided loyalties and the pull of ancient idols.
De qué trata este libro
A Yellow God is an adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard, published in 1908. Haggard was the English writer who gave readers King Solomon's Mines and She, and here he returns to the ground he knew best: the African interior, where old gods still hold power and strangers go in search of wealth.
The book gathers its drama around a golden idol and the people who want it, worship it or fear it. You get a fast story of travel, danger and divided loyalties, written by a man who had lived in southern Africa. Let us look first at the kind of adventure Haggard builds.
En este resumen
- 1Haggard builds a classic quest adventureFree
- 2A golden idol draws people toward trouble
- 3Africa is both setting and test
- 4The cost of obsession is the real subject
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Haggard builds a classic quest adventure
Haggard wrote in a tradition where a small group of Europeans leave a safe, ordered world and enter a distant land. Danger rises with each stage of the trip. The reader is carried along by the question of what waits at the end of the road.
A Yellow God follows this pattern. It sets a prized object at the center and lets the plot circle around it. Haggard believed a story should move, so he keeps scenes short, sharp and full of cause and effect.
If you have read his earlier novels, you will know the pleasures on offer. There are long marches, sudden threats, strange ceremonies and moments when a character has to choose between safety and duty. The book keeps this old promise to its audience.
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