The Ancient Allan
Longman, Green (US) | |
Publication date | 1920 |
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| Preceded by | She: A History of Adventure |
| Followed by | Allan and the Ice-gods |
The Ancient Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard.[1]
Plot
Though The Ancient Allan features Haggard's recurring hero Allan Quatermain, most of the plot concerns one of his past lives. In the frame story, he and Lady Ragnall (introduced in The Ivory Child) inhale taduki, a fictional drug that induces visions of previous incarnations. Thus, Quatermain relives the experiences of ancient Egyptian aristocrat Shabaka (a descendant of the pharaoh of the same name)—alongside flashes of his earlier lives—and Ragnall those of Amada, an ancient priestess of Isis; several other characters of the Quatermain novels, such as the Hottentot Hans, Lord George Ragnall, the wizard Harût, and the elephant-god Jana, also appear under various guises. The Egypt of The Ancient Allan is under the rule of the
Reception
E. F. Bleiler stated the novel had "reasonably good adventure material in the first portion of the novel, but threadbare characterizations and Victorian ethics."[2]
References
- ^ "The Ancient Allan (H. Rider Haggard)". The World's News (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 1955). Sydney, NSW: National Library of Australia. 15 May 1920. p. 29. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
- ISBN 978-0-87338-288-5.
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