Allan Quartermain: Being an Account of His Further Adventures and Discoveries...
by HAGGARD, H. RIDER
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About This Item
Longmans, Green, and Co. 1887. FIRST EDITION, handsomely rebound in half-bound green leather, octavo, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, 278pp, illus., VG+ (a plate loose, light tanning and light foxing to edges & contents, prev. owner's ex-libris to front pastedown)
Synopsis
'I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud, and my heart is broken. It is very hard having only one son to lose him thus, but God's will be done. Who am I that I should complain? The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late it does not matter when, in the end, it crushes us all. We do not prostrate ourselves before it like the poor Indians; we fly hither and thither we cry for mercy; but it is of no use, the black Fate thunders on and in its season reduces us to powder.
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- Allan Quartermain: Being an Account of His Further Adventures and Discoveries...
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- HAGGARD, H. RIDER
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co. 1887
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- modern first edition adventure victorian popular fiction h rider haggard allan quartermain africa exploration british empire
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