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Synopsis
"Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two exceptions perhaps) of all the experiences which it has amused me to employ my idle hours in recording here in a strange land, for after all England is strange to me. I grow elderly. I have, as I suppose, passed the period of enterprise and adventure and I should be well satisfied with the lot that Fate has given to my unworthy self. To begin with, I am still alive and in health when by all the rules I should have been dead many times over. I suppose I ought to be thankful for that but, before expressing an opinion on the point, I should have to be quite sure whether it is better to be alive or dead. The religious plump for the latter, though I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals."
Is The Ancient Allen appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
Classic Victorian adventure tale with period-typical colonial attitudes and moderate violence typical of Haggard's Allan Quatermain stories. Some outdated racial and cultural perspectives reflecting its 1920 publication date.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and clean language. Content notes include death.
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Who'll love this
Readers who enjoy classic adventure tales with exotic locales and philosophical narrators will appreciate Quatermain's self-reflective voice and mysterious journey.