Marie

Marie

by H. Rider Haggard
Marie

Marie

by H. Rider Haggard

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Overview

Marie is a novel by H. Rider Haggard published in 1912 featuring Allan Quatermain. Real-life individuals like Piet Retief, Thomas Halstead, and the Zulu boss Dingane show up as characters. The novel depicts Qatermain's association with the 6th Xhosa war of 1835 and the Weenen mass murder.Quatermain is a young fellow and includes his first marriage, to the Boer farm girl, Marie Marais. Their love is opposed by Marie's enemy English father, and her despicable cousin Hernan Pereira, who wants Marie.The plot starts in Cradock, a District of Cape Colony, a wild spot with a handful of white settlers. Which begins as a childhood friendship, and gradually develops into full-fledged love. At some point, monsieur Leblanc goes to one of his Sunday riding campaigns. Thinking it stolen, he embarks to search for it whenever he by chance goes over two red Kaffirs. They follow the attacker to Maraisfontein and plan an ambush on it. Her father finds out about the affair and attempts to go against it since he had promised his girl's hand with another Boer called Hernando Pereira.He provokes Allan into a shooting match where they are to take shoot birds yet Allan beats him to the game, and he and different Boers along with Marie's family choose to move away. At the point when Hernando Pereira and his company show up, they are unhappy to see Allan alive and plan on the most proficient method to eliminate him. They structure a court to attempt Allan, build fraudulent allegations against him and sentence him to death by shooting. Allan's worker keeps an eye on them and a plot is made of how to protect him from death. They drug Allan's coffee with sleep-inducing herbs and hide him in a grain pit. A letter is given to Allan from Marie expressing gratitude toward him for saving her life multiple times, and saying that she has saved his life now eventually.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789356567320
Publisher: Double 9 Booksllp
Publication date: 04/22/2022
Pages: 270
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English writer whose best-known work is the romantic adventure tale King Solomon's Mines, though he wrote over forty books in his lifetime.

Shelly Frasier has recorded over fifty audiobooks. She can be heard narrating such classics as Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

Table of Contents

Chapter I.Allan Learns French1
Chapter II.The Attack on Maraisfontein15
Chapter III.The Rescue33
Chapter IV.Hernando Pereira46
Chapter V.The Shooting Match63
Chapter VI.The Parting81
Chapter VII.Allan's Call96
Chapter VIII.The Camp of Death113
Chapter IX.The Promise128
Chapter X.Vrouw Prinsloo Speaks Her Mind142
Chapter XI.The Shot in the Kloof158
Chapter XII.Dingaan's Bet174
Chapter XIII.The Rehearsal189
Chapter XIV.The Play204
Chapter XV.Retief Asks a Favour220
Chapter XVI.The Council238
Chapter XVII.The Marriage254
Chapter XVIII.The Treaty264
Chapter XIX.Depart in Peace288
Chapter XX.The Court-Martial306
Chapter XXI.The Innocent Blood326

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"Shelly Frasier transitions easily among British, French, Dutch, and American accents in her sober performance of this classic." —-AudioFile

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