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For readers who love adventure, medieval settings and romance with high stakes, with faithful friends and loyalty tested by duty.
Che cos’è questo libro
Red Eve is a historical adventure by H. Rider Haggard, the English novelist best known for King Solomon's Mines and She. It is set in medieval England in the fourteenth century, an age of knights, feuds, abbeys and sudden violence, and it ends under the shadow of the plague that killed so many people across Europe.
Haggard wrote many tales of daring and loyalty, and here he brings his gift for pace and strong feeling to the English past. You get a story of love that meets opposition, of faithful friends, and of a world where honour can cost a life. Let us look first at the age in which the tale takes place.
In questo riassunto
- 1A medieval England of hard choicesFree
- 2Love that meets stubborn opposition
- 3Loyalty and friendship under strain
- 4The shadow of the plague
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A medieval England of hard choices
Haggard sets his tale in the later Middle Ages, when England was a place of manor houses, village churches, great lords and church power. Society was built on loyalty, birth and duty, and a person's choices were never wholly their own. Families were bound to land and to overlords, and a quarrel between two houses could shake a whole district.
This is the kind of world in which Haggard likes to place his heroes. He sets private feeling against public rule, so that love and friendship are tested by pressure from family, rank and faith. Readers of his other books will know the method. He chooses a vivid age, gives it danger, and lets courage show itself in action rather than in long speeches.
For a modern listener, the setting is part of the pleasure. You meet a time when travel was slow and justice could be rough, when the church bell marked the day and a stranger on the road might be friend or enemy. The past here is not a quiet backdrop. It presses on every choice the characters make.
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What is Red Eve about?
Red Eve is a medieval adventure by H. Rider Haggard about love, loyalty and danger in fourteenth century England, set against the coming of the Black Death.
Who wrote Red Eve?
It was written by H. Rider Haggard, the English author of King Solomon's Mines and She, who made his name with fast, vivid tales of daring and fate.
Is Red Eve a true story?
No, it is a work of historical fiction. The setting, including the Black Death in medieval England, is real history, but the tale and its people are Haggard's invention.
What was the Black Death in the book's setting?
It was the plague that spread across Europe in the mid fourteenth century and killed a great many people in England, leaving villages emptied and society shaken.
Is Red Eve hard to read?
Not especially. Haggard writes in a direct, fast adventure style.