Name: Cleopatra
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Author: H. Rider Haggard
ISBN: 9781514195741

Cleopatra

H. Rider Haggard

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2023

H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's Mines and She, has produced a novel titled Cleopatra: Being a History of the Fall and Revenge of Harmachis. The book's initial edition appeared in 1889. The plot centres on the persistence of a dynastic lineage that is guarded by the Priests of Isis and is set in the Ptolemaic period of ancient Egyptian history. The Priesthood assigns the main character Harmachis, a living descendant of this bloodline, the task of overthrowing the alleged fake Cleopatra, driving the Romans out of Egypt, and re-establishing Egypt's golden age.

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H. Rider Haggard was an English novelist, colonial administrator, agricultural reformer, and one of the central figures in the development of modern adventure fiction. He was born Henry Rider Haggard in Norfolk, England, in 1856, and spent part of his young adulthood in southern Africa, where he worked in the colonial service. That experience gave him material, settings, and political assumptions that shaped much of his fiction, especially his stories of exploration, empire, ancient kingdoms, hidden peoples, and dangerous quests.Haggard became famous with King Solomon's Mines, first published in 1885, a novel that introduced Allan Quatermain and helped establish the lost-world adventure as a powerful popular form. Its success was followed by Allan Quatermain, She, Ayesha, Nada the Lily, Montezuma's Daughter, The People of the Mist, and many other novels. His books combined fast-moving action, exotic landscapes, mysterious civilizations, supernatural suggestion, romance, and imperial-era adventure in a style that influenced later pulp fiction, lost-race stories, jungle adventure, fantasy, and cinematic adventure heroes.Allan Quatermain remains Haggard's most enduring male hero: a hunter, guide, observer, and reluctant adventurer whose toughness is often tempered by humility, fatalism, and melancholy. Haggard's work is also historically complicated. His fiction reflects the racial, imperial, and colonial attitudes of its age, yet it often shows more interest in African cultures, oral tradition, leadership, and moral courage than many adventure novels of the same period. That tension is part of why his books remain important artifacts of Victorian popular literature.Beyond fiction, Haggard wrote on agriculture, rural life, and land policy, subjects he took seriously throughout his later career. He was knighted in 1912 and died in 1925. His influence continued long after his death, especially through adventure fiction, fantasy, lost-world stories, and the broad tradition of expeditionary romance. Writers and filmmakers who built stories around ancient secrets, hidden kingdoms, perilous journeys, and larger-than-life explorers worked in territory Haggard helped define.