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Allan’s Wife and Other Tales is a collection of stories by Henry Rider Haggard about his African hunter hero, Allan Quatermain. The title story is by far the longest, describing Allan’s childhood, upbringing in Africa, and meeting with his wife, and is accompanied by three genuinely short stories, Hunter Quartermain’s Story, A Tale of Three Lions, and Long Odds. They were published separately in magazines in the first flush of Haggard’s success, then collected in this volume.

Allan’s Wife (1889) is a moving account of Quatermain’s sad English childhood (when his mother and three siblings die of fever his father emigrates to South Africa), robust African upbringing, and the adventures which lead to his marriage. Unlike Kipling’s often forced and exhausting knowledgeableness, Haggard’s familiarity with guns and hunting, the South African landscape, and the customs and language of Zulus, Masai, Boers etc comes over clearly and convincingly. Apart from the main narrative arc about Quatermain’s meeting, wooing and wedding his wife, Stella, there are two striking features:

The African medicine man, Indaba-zimbi, accompanies Quatermain from early in his adventures and establishes himself as a voice of ancestral African wisdom, giving good advice and performing miraculous magic at key moments. Their first meeting at a competition with his rival to draw down lightning from an electrical storm is pretty dramatic. Repeatedly he says you white men are clever, but you don’t know everything. Thus, as in all the Quatermain stories, a black African is a key figure, representing wisdom, dignity, cunning and endurance.

Contents

CHAPTER I. EARLY DAYS

CHAPTER II. THE FIRE-FIGHT

CHAPTER III. NORTHWARDS

CHAPTER IV. THE ZULU IMPI

CHAPTER V. THE END OF THE LAAGER

CHAPTER VI. STELLA

CHAPTER VII. THE BABOON-WOMAN

CHAPTER VIII. THE MARBLE KRAALS

CHAPTER IX. “LET US GO IN, ALLAN!”

CHAPTER X. HENDRIKA PLOTS EVIL

CHAPTER XI. GONE!

CHAPTER XII. THE MAGIC OF INDABA-ZIMBI

CHAPTER XIII. WHAT HAPPENED TO STELLA

CHAPTER XIV. FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER

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