The Wanderer's Necklace
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This is old-fashioned adventure with a healthy dose of wonderful imagination.
H. Rider Haggard
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, (1856-1925) commonly known as H. Rider Haggard was an English author active during the Victorian era. Considered a pioneer of the lost world genre, Haggard was known for his adventure fiction. His work often depicted African settings inspired by the seven years he lived in South Africa with his family. In 1880, Haggard married Marianna Louisa Margitson and together they had four children, one of which followed her father’s footsteps and became an author. Haggard is still widely read today, and is celebrated for his imaginative wit and impact on 19th century adventure literature.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I read this about 40 years ago, so my memory is spotty, but it involves a Viking Varangian at the court of the Empress Irene c.800. One singular aspect is that Frederick Rolfe wrote a more fantastic (and to my mind more enjoyable) sequel, The Weird of the Wanderer.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is old-fashioned adventure with an emphasis on old fashioned. I'm not going to claim that Haggard even at his best is the same order of classic as the best by Charles Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot or Thomas Hardy. But like fellow Victorians Arthur Conan Doyle or Robert Louis Stevenson or Rudyard Kipling, Haggard really could spin a good yarn, and the fantasy genre in general owes him a great debt. Ten of his books are on my bookshelves. I gobbled those up in my teens and most I remember very, very well even decades later. My favorite of his novels involve Ayesha, known as She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, especially the book Wisdom's Daughter. But, this is definitely one of the others I found greatly enjoyable, and Olaf is one of Haggard's most memorable heroes--again, old-fashioned, in good senses and bad. The sensibilities and stereotypes in Haggard's books are going to scrape against modern, politically correct sentiments--but they also present a hero for whom words like "duty" and "honor" aren't quaint relics--and there's more imagination and daring do in a novel like this one than you'll find in any ten published in fantasy today. Colorful is how I'd put it, at times bordering on the purple, but certainly not dull.