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The third installment in H. Rider Haggard's Zulu trilogy, Finished is a detailed historical account of the decline of the once-mighty Zulu nation, recounted from the perspective of globe-trotting adventurer Allan Quatermain. From the thrill of the safari to battlefield play-by-plays, this novel will not disappoint fans of the classic action-adventure genre..
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The final volume in Haggard's Zulu Trilogy balances between the realistic and the spiritual, albeit ultimately siding with the latter towards book's end. While it contains the final history of the undoing of the Zulu Empire and King Cetewayo, it allows its vivid battle scenes, which dominated the earlier two novels in the trilogy, to give way to meditative reflections on the futility of seeking power and revenge. There often seems to be an air of melancholy in Haggard's Quatermain books, but it is especially true in Finished. Time seems to be slipping away, an epoch vanishing, for the Zulus and the characters who have filled the pages of the series, Quatermain, the wizard Zikali, Mameena, and the ghosts of Zulu kings of the past. Allan show more is drawing near to his time, his own exhaustion, and to the final adventures that Haggard described in Allan Quatermain, some thirty years earlier. So, too, was Haggard himself. show less
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) is best remembered for his 34 adventure fantasy novels set in exotic locations. As a child, Haggard, whose father was an English barrister, was considered dim-witted and was inclined to daydreaming. His parents ended his formal education when he was seventeen, and he was sent to work in South Africa, where his show more imagination was inspired by the people, animals, and jungle. He became close friends with authors Rudyard Kipling and Andrew Lang. Haggard's most popular books are King Solomon's Mines (1886) and She (1887). He also wrote short stories, as well as nonfiction on topics such as gardening, English farming, and rural life, interests which led to duties on government commissions concerned with land maintenance. For his literary contributions and his government service, Haggard was knighted in 1912. Several of Haggard's novels have been filmed. She was filmed in 1965, starring Ursula Andress. King Solomon's Mines was filmed with Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr in 1950, and again with Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone in 1985. Also, the novel Allan Quatermain was filmed as Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold with Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone in 1986. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Zikalis Rache
- Original title
- Finished
- Alternate titles*
- The Marble Temple
- Original publication date
- 1917
- People/Characters
- Allan Quatermain
- Dedication
- To COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Sagamore Hill, U.S.A.
- First words
- You, my friend, into whose hand, if you live, I hope these scribblings of mine will pass one day, must well remember the 12th of April of the year 1877 at Pretoria.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Such was the end of Zikali the Wizard, Opener of Roads, the "Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born," and such was the vengeance that he worked upon the great House of Senzangacona, bringing it to naught and with it the nation of the Zulus.
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