Review: No one has ever done the adventure story better than H. Rider Haggard
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 7, 2014
The Adventure Story. Even the words are alluring, a promise of thrills and chills. A statement that makes you want to don your Fedora, holster your leather whip, and explore dank tombs for mythical artifacts. All while sporting your best five o’clock shadow and gravely Indiana Jones voice.The Adventure Story, a never-ending thrill ride fueled by testosterone and adrenaline. And the King of the adventure story was H. Rider Haggard. His adventure stories, particularly the Allan Quatermain series, aren’t just classic, they are legendary.The Complete H. Rider Haggard Anthology – 67 Works of Classic Fiction is a meticulously compiled and edited collection that shows the master at work. Reading this Haggard anthology with a cigar in one hand and snifter of brandy in the other just feels right. Haggard’s narrative and structure in his stories feels amazingly modern, never dated, but fresh and original and dripping masculinity.Feel like taking a great adventure. This is the ride of a lifetime, a no-holds barred, check your shorts thrill ride. Prepare yourself, because no one ever did it better than H. Rider Haggard.