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The Ancient Allan - Wikipedia

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The Ancient Allan
First edition (UK)
Author	H. Rider Haggard
Language	English
Series	Allan Quatermain
Publisher	Cassell (UK) Longman, Green (US)
Publication date	1920
Publication place	United Kingdom
Preceded by	She: A History of Adventure
Followed by	Allan and the Ice-gods

The Ancient Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard.^[1] It is the fourteenth of the eighteen overall stories Haggard wrote about the hunter Allan Quatermain, and the tenth novel in the series.

Plot

Though The Ancient Allan features Haggard's recurring hero Allan Quatermain, most of the plot concerns one of his past lives. In the frame story, he and Lady Ragnall (introduced in The Ivory Child) inhale Taduki, a fictional drug that induces visions of previous incarnations. Thus, Quatermain relives the experiences of ancient Egyptian aristocrat Shabaka (a descendant of the pharaoh of the same name)—alongside flashes of his earlier lives—and Ragnall those of Amada, an ancient priestess of Isis; several other characters of the Quatermain novels, such as the Hottentot Hans, Lord George Ragnall, the wizard Harût, and the elephant-god Jana, also appear under various guises. The Egypt of The Ancient Allan is under the rule of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and much of the story is about a revolt against their domination. The Ancient Allan is set in nineteenth century England as well as ancient Persia, Egypt and Ethiopia.

Reception

E. F. Bleiler stated the novel had "reasonably good adventure material in the first portion of the novel, but threadbare characterizations and Victorian ethics."^[2]

Themes

The Ancient Allan, like many of Haggard's works, is an adventure story with strong fantastical elements involving metempsychosis and telepathy. Ancient Egypt and its religion as usual play the largest part in this web of occultism. It is strongly applied in The Ancient Allan (as well as in a few other Quatermain adventures, such as She and Allan) that the curse of the Egyptian goddess Isis pursues several characters throughout their successive incarnations.

The Ancient Allan also has pronounced elements of the historical romance.

It is the second book in a trilogy of Quatermain stories involving Taduki, a drug which induces clairvoyance and visions. The drug first appeared in The Ivory Child (1916), to which The Ancient Allan is a sequel, and appeared again in Allan and the Ice-Gods (1927).

Chronology

The Ancient Allan is the tenth novel and the fourteenth story overall in Haggard's Allan Quatermain series. It was preceded by Finished (1917) and followed by She and Allan (1921).

The Ancient Allan is the second in a trilogy of Quatermain books involving the Taduki drug; it is a sequel to The Ivory Child (1916), while the trilogy was concluded by Allan and the Ice-Gods (1927), the eighteenth and final Quatermain story.

The events of the book occur around 1882,^[3] after Quatermain's adventures in King Solomon's Mines (1885). By this time he is over sixty years old and living comfortably in England, although he returns to Africa in the chronologically final story, Allan Quatermain (1887).

References

^ "The Ancient Allan (H. Rider Haggard)". The World's News (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 1955). Sydney, NSW: National Library of Australia. 15 May 1920. p. 29. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
^ Bleiler, Everett F. (1990). The Guide to Supernatural Fiction. Kent State: Kent State University Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-87338-288-5.
^ Haggard, Henry Rider (13 May 2024). Hunter Quatermain's Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Alan Quatermain. Peter Owen. ISBN 978-0-7206-1182-3.

External links

Complete novel at Project Gutenberg

Works by H. Rider Haggard

Fiction

Dawn (1884)
The Witch's Head (1885)
King Solomon's Mines (1885)
She (1886)
Jess (1886)
Allan Quatermain (1887)
Mr Meeson's Will (1888)
Maiwa's Revenge (1888)
Colonel Quaritch, VC (1888)
Cleopatra (1889)
Allan's Wife (1889)
Beatrice (1889)
The World's Desire (1890)
Eric Brighteyes (1891)
Nada the Lily (1892)
Montezuma's Daughter (1893)
The People of the Mist (1894)
Joan Haste (1895)
Heart of the World (1895)
The Wizard (1896)
Doctor Therne (1898)
Swallow (1898)
Elissa (1900)
Lysbeth (1901)
Pearl Maiden (1903)
Stella Fregelius (1904)
The Brethren (1904)
Ayesha: The Return of She (1905)
The Way of the Spirit (1906)
Benita (1906)
Fair Margaret (1907)
The Ghost Kings (1908)
The Yellow God (1908)
The Lady of Blossholme (1909)
Queen Sheba's Ring (1910)
Morning Star (1910)
Red Eve (1911)
The Mahatma and the Hare (1911)
Marie (1912)
Child of Storm (1913)
The Wanderer's Necklace (1913)
Allan and the Holy Flower (1915)
The Ivory Child (1916)
Finished (1917)
Love Eternal (1918)
Moon of Israel (1918)
When the World Shook (1919)
The Ancient Allan (1920)
Smith and the Pharaohs (1920)
She and Allan (1921)
The Virgin of the Sun (1922)
Wisdom's Daughter (1923)
Heu-Heu (1924)
Queen of the Dawn (1925)
The Treasure of the Lake (1926)
Allan and the Ice-gods (1927)
Mary of Marion Isle (1929)
Belshazzar (1930)

Non-fiction

Cetywayo and His White Neighbours (1882)
A Farmer's Year (1899)
The Last Boer War (1899)
A Winter Pilgrimage (1901)
Rural England (1902)
The Poor and the Land (1905)
A Gardener's Year (1905)
Regeneration (1910)
Rural Denmark (1911)
The Days of My Life (autobiography, 1926)

v t e H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines
Characters	Allan Quatermain Sir Henry Curtis
Sequels and prequels	Allan Quatermain (1887) Maiwa's Revenge (1888) Allan's Wife (1889) Marie (1912) Child of Storm (1913) The Holy Flower (1915) The Ivory Child (1916) Finished (1917) The Ancient Allan (1920) She and Allan (1921) Allan and the Ice-Gods (1927)
Films	King Solomon's Mines (1937) King Solomon's Mines (1950) Watusi (1959) King Solomon's Treasure (1979) King Solomon's Mines (1985) Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986) King Solomon's Mines (2004) Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)
Video Games	Deadfall Adventures
Related	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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