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A young hunter can face danger with a rifle—but what protects him when love makes every choice matter?
In H. Rider Haggard’s Marie, the older Allan Quatermain looks back on his youth in southern Africa. He has nerve, a rifle and little experience of love. Then he meets Marie Marais, a brave, clear-headed Boer woman. His love for her shapes his choices, while Hernan Pereira, a rival willing to use deceit, threatens their happiness.
Around them, Boer families leave the Cape Colony in ox wagons and travel north on the Great Trek. Their search for land draws the story toward Piet Retief and the Zulu king Dingaan. Private hopes meet public danger in an adventure where loyalty carries risks, and one wrong choice can cost a life.
What you’ll discover
- Allan before the legend Meet a young Quatermain whose courage is stronger than his experience of love.
- A love worth risking Discover Marie’s kindness and resolve as Allan’s devotion faces a scheming rival.
- Wagons on the move Follow families north through a country where their hopes meet deadly uncertainty.
- A watchful companion Get to know Hans, whose sharp eye often catches danger before Allan sees it.
- Romance meets real history Watch a personal struggle unfold against the Great Trek and the approach to Dingaan’s royal town.
Who will love it
For readers who love adventure, wagon journeys and love stories set against real history, and who want to meet Allan Quatermain as a young man.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A young hunter in a country on the move
- Allan meets Marie and loses his heart
- A rival who will not let go
- The road leads toward Dingaan
- Love, loyalty and the pull of fate
- How Haggard tells the tale
Who’s who
- Allan QuatermainA young hunter and guide on the South African frontier, who tells the story in old age and falls deeply in love.
- Marie MaraisA brave and clear-headed Boer woman of Huguenot descent whom Allan loves.
- HansAllan's loyal Hottentot servant, sharp, humorous and watchful, who often sees danger before his master does.
- Hernan PereiraA scheming rival who also wants Marie and is willing to use deceit against Allan.
- Piet RetiefThe real Boer leader who seeks land from the Zulu king and carries the trekkers toward Dingaan.
- DingaanThe Zulu king whose rule and moods hold the fate of visitors to his royal town.
- ZikaliThe old Zulu wizard called the Opener of Roads, cunning and feared, with aims no one can read.
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Marie
by H. Rider Haggard · 1912
Young Allan Quatermain loves Marie, but a jealous rival and the road toward Dingaan put their love in danger.
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Marie is an adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1912.
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A young hunter in a country on the move
The book opens with Allan Quatermain as an old man, looking back. He remembers himself as a youth, not yet the famous hunter of Haggard's other novels. He is poor, restless and quick with a rifle, and he lives by his wits on the frontier of southern Africa.
The setting matters as much as the hero. The Cape Colony is under British rule, and many Boer farmers dislike it. Families pack their goods into wagons and set out into lands they have never seen, hoping to live free of foreign law. This movement is the Great Trek, and it gives the novel its pace and its sense of danger.
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What is Marie by H. Rider Haggard about?
It tells of the young Allan Quatermain, who falls in love with a Boer woman named Marie during the Great Trek. Their story runs into rivalry, danger and the real events surrounding the Zulu king Dingaan.
Is Marie part of the Allan Quatermain series?
Yes. Haggard wrote many books about Allan Quatermain, and Marie goes back to his youth. It was published in 1912 and shows him before he became the seasoned hunter of the earlier novels.
Is Marie based on a true story?
The main characters of the romance are invented, but the setting is real. The Great Trek of the Boers, Piet Retief and the Zulu king Dingaan are part of actual history in the 1830s.
The author
H. Rider Haggard
1856–1925 · English adventure novelist
Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English novelist. He was born in Norfolk, lived in southern Africa from 1875 to 1881, and later settled in Norfolk. He wrote King Solomon’s Mines (1885), She (1887), and Beatrice (1890). He also wrote about agriculture and rural life. He died in London.
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