Finished Review
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Henry Rider Haggard was a British Victorian writer known for his adventure novels set is exotic places. His writings are sympathetic to the natives. He often portrayed Africans as heroic in his stories even though the main characters are usually European. Alan Quartermain was the main character in the novel King Solomon's Mines. He also appears in several sequels. Quartermain was a progressive Victorian. He was a big game hunter in Africa who championed the cause of the natives. The introduction to Finished begins as follows: "This book, although it can be read as a separate story, is the third of the trilogy of which _Marie_ and _Child of Storm_ are Quatermain, the consummation of the vengeance of the wizard Zikali, alias The Opener of Roads, or "The-Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born," upon the royal Zulu House of which Senzangacona was the founder and Cetewayo, our enemy in the war of 1879, the last representative who ruled as a king. Although, of course, much is added for the purposes of romance, the main facts of history have been adhered to with some faithfulness."
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