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For readers who love old-fashioned adventure, Victorian and Edwardian storytelling, and fiction about colonial southern Africa, with war, vengeance and the pull of fate.
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Finished is an adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard, the English writer who gave the world the hunter Allan Quatermain. It belongs to the long series of Quatermain books, which Haggard began with King Solomon's Mines and kept adding to for decades. This book is set against the fall of the Zulu kingdom, one of the great upheavals of nineteenth century southern Africa.
Haggard knew the region at first hand. As a young man he worked for the colonial government in Natal and the Transvaal, and he watched the Zulu kingdom and the British Empire come into conflict. In this book he turns that experience into fiction, told in the plain, weathered voice of an old hunter who has seen too much. You get war, danger and the pull of fate. Let us begin with the world the story moves through.
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- 1A world on the edge of collapseFree
- 2An old hunter tells his tale
- 3War, vengeance and the pull of fate
- 4Reading Haggard today
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A world on the edge of collapse
The novel is set in southern Africa in the late nineteenth century. This was a time when the Zulu kingdom, once among the strongest powers in the region, faced the pressure of British arms and colonial ambition. Haggard chooses this moment because it is full of tension, and because he knew its people and landscapes from his own years in Natal.
The country itself matters in his books. Rivers, hills, veld and kraals are described with the eye of someone who has travelled them. The reader is meant to feel the distance, the heat and the risk of every road.
In such a setting, ordinary lives are quickly drawn into events far larger than any one person. That is the pattern readers meet again and again in Haggard's African fiction, and it gives this book its sense of a world coming to an end.
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Who is Allan Quatermain?
Allan Quatermain is H. Rider Haggard's recurring hero, an English hunter and trader in southern Africa. He first appears in King Solomon's Mines and tells many of the later stories himself, in a modest and thoughtful voice.
Who wrote Finished?
Finished was written by H. Rider Haggard, the English author of King Solomon's Mines and She. He drew on his years as a young official in Natal and the Transvaal when he wrote his African fiction.
Is Finished a true story?
No, it is a work of fiction. Haggard sets it among real historical conditions, the struggle between the Zulu kingdom and the British Empire, but the hunter who tells it and his adventures are invented.
Is Finished part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Haggard's long run of Allan Quatermain books. Each can be read with pleasure on its own, because the old hunter tells his story in a way that draws a new reader in.
Is Haggard hard to read?
His prose is clear and fast. Readers should also expect his respect for Zulu courage.