novelnovelQueen Sheba's RingQueen Sheba's Ringhttps://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/haggard/queenShebasCover.jpgQueen Sheba's Ring is a lost world adventure set in central Africa in which Englishman Dr. Richard Adams and his companions enlist the help of Maqueda, queen of the Fung, to rescue Adams's son from the Abati people. H...<span style="font-style:italic;">Queen Sheba's Ring</span> is a lost world adventure set in central Africa in which Englishman Dr. Richard Adams and his companions enlist the help of Maqueda, queen of the Fung, to rescue Adams's son from the Abati people. Haggard wanted to title it <span style="font-style:italic;">Maqueda</span>, but his publisher pushed for <span style="font-style:italic;">QSR</span> because, “There’s romance in the title and women love a story about a ring” (qtd. Whatmore 52). <span style="font-style:italic;">QSR</span> was serialized in <span style="font-style:italic;">Nash's Magazine</span> from April to November 1909. The first UK edition, published by Eveleigh Nash, London, on 10 September 1910, includes a color frontispiece by <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/12">Cyrus Cuneo</a>. Eveleigh Nash issued 7,600 copies in this printing. Doubleday Page, New York, published the first US edition in 1910, which featured illustrations by <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/30">Sigurd Schou</a>. Macdonald & Co., London, published an edition of <span style="font-style:italic;">QSR</span> illustrated by <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/50">Geoffrey Whittam</a> in October 1953, 1st thus, with a 2nd imprint appearing in January 1958. <h4>Further Reading</h4> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Pocock, Tom. <span style="font-style:italic;">Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire</span>. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 126. Print.</p> <p style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in">Whatmore, D.E.. <span style="font-style:italic;">H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography</span>. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F36, 51-52. Print.</p>
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Queen Sheba's Ring
Queen Sheba's Ring is a lost world adventure set in central Africa in which Englishman Dr. Richard Adams and his companions enlist the help of Maqueda, queen of the Fung, to rescue Adams's son from the Abati people. Haggard wanted to title it Maqueda, but his publisher pushed for QSR because, “There’s romance in the title and women love a story about a ring” (qtd. Whatmore 52). QSR was serialized in Nash's Magazine from April to November 1909. The first UK edition, published by Eveleigh Nash, London, on 10 September 1910, includes a color frontispiece by Cyrus Cuneo. Eveleigh Nash issued 7,600 copies in this printing. Doubleday Page, New York, published the first US edition in 1910, which featured illustrations by Sigurd Schou. Macdonald & Co., London, published an edition of QSR illustrated by Geoffrey Whittam in October 1953, 1st thus, with a 2nd imprint appearing in January 1958.
Further Reading
Pocock, Tom. Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 126. Print.
Whatmore, D.E.. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F36, 51-52. Print.
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1st Edition from Eveleigh Nash
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1910.
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1st US Edition
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1910.
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Reprint
London: George Newnes, 1920.
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Macdonald Illustrated Edition, 2nd imprint
London: Macdonald & Co, 1958.
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Kingston Library
London: Thames Publishing, 1970?.
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Maqueda, halting before some objects that glimmered whitely, held up her light, saying, 'Look!'
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Walda Nagastra, the Child of Kings
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Their intimate relations became a matter of gossip throughout the land
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He wavered... and slowly sank onto his hands and knees
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Maqueda held her council in the great hall of the palace
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A solitary figure seated on a very tired horse
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'Let me be. O Adams' she said 'If I am to die I will die here'
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Queen Sheba's Ring
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