The Wanderer Necklace ANNOTATED edition by Henry Rider Haggard Literature Fiction eBooks
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Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet. He was the eighth of ten children. He was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under the Reverend H.J. Graham but, unlike his older brothers who graduated from various Public Schools, he ended up attending Ipswich Grammar School. This was because his father, who regarded him as somebody who was not going to amount to much, could no longer afford to maintain his expensive private education. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private ‘crammer’ in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office, which in the end he never sat. Instead Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, Sir Henry Bulwer. It was in this role that Haggard was present in Pretoria for the official announcement of the British annexation of the Boer Republic of the Transvaal. In fact, Haggard raised the Union Flag and was forced to read out much of the proclamation following the loss of voice of the official originally entrusted with the duty. As a young man, Haggard fell deeply in love with Lilith Jackson, whom he intended to marry once he obtained paid employment in South Africa. In 1878 he became Registrar of the High Court in the Transvaal, but when he sent his father a letter telling him that he intended to return to England in order to marry Lilith Jackson his father replied that he forbade it until he had made a career for himself. In 1879 he heard that Lilith had married someone else. When he eventually returned to England he married a friend of his sister, Mariana Louisa Margitson and brought her back to Africa. Later they had a son named Jock (who died of measles at the age of 10) and three daughters. Returning again to England in 1882
The Wanderer Necklace ANNOTATED edition by Henry Rider Haggard Literature Fiction eBooks
This is a Haggard adventure outside his african world; the hero is a northman who by a disastrous failure of a planned wedding loses most of his tribe, family, friends, wife-to-be, and religion, and discovers that he is a kind of reincarnation of a long-ago leader, the Wanderer. The Wanderer had loved a woman in ancient egypt, but got separated from her; they divided a necklace as sign of recognition. The hero takes this necklace from the Wanderer's tomb and sets out to find the other half, and with it the reincarnation of his ancient love. After heroic adventures in Byzantium and Egypt they are reunited, and return to his home in the north.The story is full of heroic action, but to me it feels a bit flat, neither the exotic places of some of Haggards novels nor the historical connections of others, and with the byzantine empress causing so much problems by her jealousy and breaches of promises, one does feel imaptient, why doesn't he kill her and get the book over a hundred pages earlier?
The book itself is a bit large, about letter-sized paper, and printed in a typewriter style, but the printing is clean and well-readable.
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The Wanderer Necklace ANNOTATED edition by Henry Rider Haggard Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I am a H. Rider Haggard fan. I read the edition. One of the first Haggard books I read. His story lines are interesting, easy reading, and different if you are an Indiana Jones type of fan. I took a previous person's suggestion and read King Solomon's Mine first followed by Alan Quatermain. I will probably end up reading all of Haggard's books because I like his writing style and the price is not bad either.
I had a hard time getting into the book. The characters are well drawn but the book lacks oomph. Olaf is an honorable man and the story takes you to many places that are interesting. This is not your typical book and that is good in itself. The storyline is very clever and it never loses its focus. While it is not the best book I've ever read, I did read it through to the end. You might want to give it a try.
This is not a "mass market paperback." It looks like something that was self-published, the print quality is very poor and very tiny with huge page margins. It is not readable and certainly not worth the price. Sending it back.
I've always loved adventure stories but have cared little about most of those written in the past few decades. A young friend suggested I check out Henry Rider Haggard. The Wanderer's Necklace was my first choice and boy, was it a good one! This story would likely be considered a saga today. Although the Wanderer in the title refers to a chief who has been dead for centuries, the main character, Olaf, does his own share of wandering to exotic places, always with the necklace and sword he found in the Wanderer's tomb. It would be futile to try to give any specifics about the story because it is so detailed. Suffice it to say that it is exciting, intriguing, and well-written. Also, the formatting is very good.
Once again, Haggard creates a gripping array of characters and events in this multi faceted story. We are taken from the land of the Norse warriors to the treacherous intrigues of the Byzantine as well as Egypt and Lesbos. Along the way we encounter many beautiful and some treacherous women from Norse maidens to the Empress of Constantinople to an ingenue maiden from Egypt descended from the ancient Pharohs. Our guide for this adventure is Olaf Red Sword, a man who is conflicted by his honor, his oaths and his religion despite being the greatest warrior of the times. This tale is reminiscent of Rider's "Cleopatra" novel and is equally enjoyable. A must read!
This book features a Scandinavian Viking main character who ends up in the Byzantine Empire as a guard for the empress while looking for the woman he dreams of who has the other half of a necklace he stole from a warriors grave. It was interesting but it told in a awkward way at times. At times I wanted more information , other times I wanted him to hurry up that part of the story. Overall if you like this genre you will probably like the characters. It felt true to the time frame from what little I remember of this from highschool history.
This was a wonderful diamond in the rough. I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but I read the other reviews before "purchasing" (using the term loosely seeing as it was free) the book. I couldn't put the book down.
The book is written from Olaf's point of view in the moments of his life that he remembers...
It begins with Olaf as a young man and goes through varying stages of his life and ends with his death. While it is not written in modern day English, it was very entertaining. The different relationships between Olaf and the other characters in the book such as the Augusta Lady Irene, Martina and Lady Heliodore are mesmorizing. Olaf is a man of character, a man who understands the meaning of the words duty and honor, and is wise even in his years as a young man. Even as crazy as the Augusta is she understands Olaf's worth.
It was very easy to be drawn into each of the characters in the book and I was anxious to see how Olaf Red Sword/Michael would get out of each predicament he found himself in. The man truly had to have had God on his side working miracles to get him through the hoops he had to jump through.
This was a great book well worth the read.
This is a Haggard adventure outside his african world; the hero is a northman who by a disastrous failure of a planned wedding loses most of his tribe, family, friends, wife-to-be, and religion, and discovers that he is a kind of reincarnation of a long-ago leader, the Wanderer. The Wanderer had loved a woman in ancient egypt, but got separated from her; they divided a necklace as sign of recognition. The hero takes this necklace from the Wanderer's tomb and sets out to find the other half, and with it the reincarnation of his ancient love. After heroic adventures in Byzantium and Egypt they are reunited, and return to his home in the north.
The story is full of heroic action, but to me it feels a bit flat, neither the exotic places of some of Haggards novels nor the historical connections of others, and with the byzantine empress causing so much problems by her jealousy and breaches of promises, one does feel imaptient, why doesn't he kill her and get the book over a hundred pages earlier?
The book itself is a bit large, about letter-sized paper, and printed in a typewriter style, but the printing is clean and well-readable.
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