Allan Quartermain 4 - Haggard, Rider H.

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Résumé :
Maiwa's Revenge, or the War of the Little Hand continues H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain adventures with a compact, violent, and fast-moving tale of pursuit, vengeance, and frontier war. When Quatermain is drawn into the story of Maiwa, a woman seeking justice against a brutal ruler, the result is a fierce expedition into danger, where personal wrongs, tribal conflict, imperial-era violence, and survival in the African interior collide. Haggard's gift for atmosphere, peril, and mythic adventure gives the story its restless force. First published in 1888, Maiwa's Revenge belongs to the larger world of Allan Quatermain, one of the most enduring adventure figures of nineteenth-century fiction. The novella reflects the imperial assumptions and racial attitudes of its age, but it also remains an important work in the development of lost-world fiction, colonial adventure, and popular action storytelling. This edition will interest readers of H. Rider Haggard, Victorian adventure fiction, historical adventure, classic pulp forerunners, African-set adventure fiction, and the early traditions that helped shape later jungle, expedition, and lost-world narratives....

Biographie:
H. Rider Haggard was an English novelist and one of the defining figures in the development of adventure fiction, lost-world fiction, and imperial-era romance. Born in Norfolk in 1856, Haggard spent formative years in southern Africa, an experience that shaped much of his fiction and supplied the settings, landscapes, conflicts, and imaginative scale for many of his best-known works. His novels combined exploration, danger, ancient mysteries, political unrest, treasure, romance, and the spectacle of remote or hidden worlds.Haggard is best remembered for King Solomon's Mines, She, Allan Quatermain, Nada the Lily, and the broader Allan Quatermain sequence. His work influenced later adventure fiction, pulp fiction, fantasy, jungle adventure, and lost-world narratives, while also preserving the assumptions and tensions of the late Victorian imperial imagination. Haggard remains a major figure for readers interested in classic adventure fiction, nineteenth-century popular literature, African-set fiction, lost civilizations, expedition narratives, and the early roots of modern genre storytelling....