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Allan Quatermain
- Pages
- about 386
- Category
- Literature & Fiction
- Language
- English
- Reading time
- 7.1 h at 250 wpm
From the opening
CHAPTER I. THE CONSUL’S YARN
CHAPTER II. THE BLACK HAND
CHAPTER III. THE MISSION STATION
CHAPTER IV. ALPHONSE AND HIS ANNETTE
CHAPTER V. UMSLOPOGAAS MAKES A PROMISE
CHAPTER VI. THE NIGHT WEARS ON
CHAPTER VII. A SLAUGHTER GRIM AND GREAT
CHAPTER VIII. ALPHONSE EXPLAINS
CHAPTER IX. INTO THE UNKNOWN
CHAPTER X. THE ROSE OF FIRE
CHAPTER XI. THE FROWNING CITY
CHAPTER XII. THE SISTER QUEENS
CHAPTER XIII. ABOUT THE ZU-VENDI PEOPLE
CHAPTER XIV. THE FLOWER TEMPLE
CHAPTER XV. SORAIS’ SONG
CHAPTER XVI. BEFORE THE STATUE
CHAPTER XVII. THE STORM BREAKS
CHAPTER XVIII. WAR! RED WAR!
CHAPTER XIX. A STRANGE WEDDING
CHAPTER XX. THE BATTLE OF THE PASS
CHAPTER XI. AWAY! AWAY!
CHAPTER XII. HOW UMSLOPOGAAS HELD THE STAIR
CHAPTER XIII. I HAVE SPOKEN
CHAPTER XIV. BY ANOTHER HAND
I inscribe this book of adventure to my son ARTHUR JOHN RIDER HAGGARD
in the hope that in days to come he, and many other boys whom I shall
never know, may, in the acts and thoughts of Allan Quatermain and his
companions, as herein recorded, find something to help him and them to
reach to what, with Sir Henry Curtis, I hold to be the highest rank
whereto we can attain—the state and dignity of English gentlemen.
“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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