Mr. Meeson's Will

Overview

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 Allan, 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!

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Bio of H. Rider Haggard

H. Rider Haggard, creator of the Allan Quatermain series -- which includes such classics as King Solomon's Mines and She -- wrote more than 60 books during his lifetime and became one of the all-time bestselling authors of adventure fiction in the world. His works have inspired countless imitators, and his influence can still be seen in such movies as Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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Imprint

Wild Side Press

Filesize

235.13 KB

Number of Pages

230

eBook ISBN

9781102339236