MARIE
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Marie is a 1917 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. It was first published by Cassell in the UK and by Longmans in the United States. The plot concerns Quatermain as a young man and involves his first marriage, to the Boer farm girl, Marie Marais. Their romance is opposed by Marie's anti-English father, and her villainous cousin Hernan Pereira, who desires Marie. They are Voortrekkers who take part in the Great Trek whom Quatermain has to rescue. Marie is the fifth novel, and the eighth story overall, in the Allan Quatermain series.
The novel describes Quatermain's involvement in the Sixth Xhosa War of 1835 and Weenen massacre. Real life people such as Piet Retief, Thomas Halstead, and the Zulu chief Dingane appear as characters. Events in Nada the Lily are frequently referenced.
It was published in the United Kingdom by Cassell and in the United States by Longman and Company.
MARIE
$11.50