Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3106027 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-04
• Released on: 2003-01-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 186 pages

Synopsis
If Haggard,one of the greatest adventure writers of all time, is remembered now, it is for his novels featuring Allan Quatermain, a heroic adventurer whose exploits in Africa form the most important sequence of Haggard's books. Quatermain's adventures are chronicled in such novels as "King Solomon's Mines", "Allan Quaterman", "She", and "11 others". However, despite the importance of the Quaterman books, many of Haggard's other novels are interesting in their own right. "Nada the Lily" is the first of four books about the Zulus, all of which are excellent. "Eric Brighteyes" is rich, fantasy-laden Icelandic saga. "The World's Desire" (written with Andrew Lang) is a fantasy about the characters in "The Odyssey". And there are numerous other titles (many of them reprinted by Wildside Press as part of the "Wildside Fantasy Classics" series) which bring undeservingly lost Haggard books back into print. "Mr. Meeson's Will" is just such a book. Here we get a glimpse of what H. Rider Haggard must have gone through as a starting author, as he slyly takes the reader inside the British publishing industry, where greed and hack writers (he calls them - tame writers!) are prominent.

One can easily see how writers of the day could be ruined by publishers as ruthless and unscrupulous as Mr. Meeson. Luckily Haggard could call upon his years of legal training in search of the appropriate remedy for his heroine's tragic plight!

Customer Reviews

Thrilling!
I have read most of Haggar's books, this to me is his best written , the plot is fast moving the chapters are all relevant. In short this book is written by an experienced Haggard who has total command over his personalised brand of wit. If you enjoyed reading Nada the Lily then this one will definitely be for you.

On the downside the novel is unfortunately disappointingly brief.