The Ancient Allan

The Ancient Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard.[1]

The Ancient Allan
First edition (UK)
AuthorH. Rider Haggard
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesAllan Quatermain
PublisherCassell (UK)
Longman, Green (US)
Publication date
1920
Preceded byShe: A History of Adventure 
Followed byAllan and the Ice-gods 

Plot

Though The Ancient Allan features Haggard's recurring hero Allan Quatermain, most of the plot concerns one of his past lives. In the frame story, he and Lady Ragnall (introduced in The Ivory Child) inhale taduki, a fictional drug that induces visions of previous incarnations. Thus, Quartermain relives the experiences of ancient Egyptian aristocrat Shabaka (a descendant of the pharaoh of the same name)—alongside flashes of his earlier lives—and Ragnall those of Amada, an ancient priestess of Isis; several recurring characters of the Quartermain novels also appear under various guises.

Reception

E. F. Bleiler stated the novel had "reasonably good adventure material in the first portion of the novel, but threadbare characterizations and Victorian ethics."[2]

References
  1. "The Ancient Allan (H. Rider Haggard)". The World's News (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 1955). Sydney, NSW: National Library of Australia. 15 May 1920. p. 29. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  2. Bleiler, Everett F. (1990). The Guide to Supernatural Fiction. Kent State: Kent State University Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-87338-288-5.


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