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novelnovelAllan and the Holy Flower [The Holy Flower]Allan and the Holy Flower [The Holy Flower]https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/haggard/editions/images/000/000/298/original/theHolyFlowerWindsorMagazine21.jpg?1513785478Allan and the Holy Flower, also known as The Holy Flower, is an Allan Quatermain adventure featuring a gigantic orchid guarded by an ape and tended by an abducted English missionary’s wife. It is the first novel in a ...<span style="font-style:italic;">Allan and the Holy Flower</span>, also known as <span style="font-style:italic;">The Holy Flower</span>, is an Allan Quatermain adventure featuring a gigantic orchid guarded by an ape and tended by an abducted English missionary’s wife. It is the first novel in a series of Quatermain's adventures with his companion Hans, followed by <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/novels/46"><span style="font-style:italic;">The Ivory Child</span></a> (1916) and <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/novels/40"><span style="font-style:italic;">The Ancient Allan</span></a> (1919). <span style="font-style:italic;">The Windsor Magazine</span> serialized <span style="font-style:italic;">The Holy Flower</span> from December 1913 to November 1914, in an edition illustrated by <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/4">Maurice Greiffenhagen</a>. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, published the first US edition in 1915 as <span style="font-style:italic;">Allan & the Holy Flower</span>, which included twelve full-page illustrations by Greiffenhagen. Ward Lock, London, published <span style="font-style:italic;">HF</span> in 1915. The Ward Lock edition includes 16 Greiffenhagen illustrations, 4 more than Longmans. 14,000 copies were printed. Whatmore records that Thomas Nelson & Sons published an edition in 1915, in their Nelson's Continental Library series (No 2. in the series). Macdonald & Co., London, published an edition of <span style="font-style:italic;">AHF</span> illustrated by <a href="http://www.visualhaggard.org/illustrators/51">Hookway Cowles</a> in 1954, 1st thus, with a 2nd imprint appearing in November 1963. <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. 165, 187.</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. F42, 58-59.</p>
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Allan and the Holy Flower [The Holy Flower]
Allan and the Holy Flower, also known as The Holy Flower, is an Allan Quatermain adventure featuring a gigantic orchid guarded by an ape and tended by an abducted English missionary’s wife. It is the first novel in a series of Quatermain's adventures with his companion Hans, followed by The Ivory Child (1916) and The Ancient Allan (1919).
The Windsor Magazine serialized The Holy Flower from December 1913 to November 1914, in an edition illustrated by Maurice Greiffenhagen. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, published the first US edition in 1915 as Allan & the Holy Flower, which included twelve full-page illustrations by Greiffenhagen. Ward Lock, London, published HF in 1915. The Ward Lock edition includes 16 Greiffenhagen illustrations, 4 more than Longmans. 14,000 copies were printed. Whatmore records that Thomas Nelson & Sons published an edition in 1915, in their Nelson's Continental Library series (No 2. in the series). Macdonald & Co., London, published an edition of AHF illustrated by Hookway Cowles in 1954, 1st thus, with a 2nd imprint appearing in November 1963.
Further Reading
Pocock, Tom. Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 165, 187.
Whatmore, D.E.. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F42, 58-59.
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The Windsor Magazine, vol. 39
London: Ward, Lock & Co., December 1913.
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The Windsor Magazine, vol. 39
London: Ward, Lock & Co., January 1914.
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New Story Magazine, vol. 7, no. 3
Chicago: Street & Smith , January 1914.
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The Windsor Magazine, vol. 39
London: Ward, Lock & Co., February 1914.
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The Windsor Magazine, vol. 39
London: Ward, Lock & Co., March 1914.
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The Windsor Magazine, vol. 39
London: Ward, Lock & Co., April 1914.
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The Windsor Magazine, vol. 39
London: Ward, Lock & Co., May 1914.
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The Windsor Magazine, vol. 40
London: Ward, Lock & Co., June 1914.
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The Windsor Magazine, vol. 40
London: Ward, Lock & Co., July 1914.
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The Windsor Magazine, vol. 40
London: Ward, Lock & Co., August 1914.
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The Windsor Magazine, vol. 40
London: Ward, Lock & Co., September 1914.
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The Windsor Magazine, vol. 40
London: Ward, Lock & Co., October 1914.
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The Windsor Magazine, vol. 40
London: Ward, Lock & Co., November 1914.
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1st US edition
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1915.
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The Holy Flower; 1st UK edition
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1915.
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Macdonald Illustrated Edition, 2nd imprint
London: Macdonald & Co, 1963.
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For a long while we stared at each other
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He took up his bundle of vultures’ feathers, selected one with care, held it towards the sky, then passed it through the flame of the centre one of the three fires
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Allan and the Holly Flower
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I heard him call to me in a horrified voice
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Delgado was asked for his version of the affair
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To be continued
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One of the hunters was killed
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In the august presence of Bausi
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'Wait a little; the cloud will lift'
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'I am Komba, the Accepted-of-the-gods'
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The king himself went with us to the west gate of the town
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Drawing a knife from his girdle, he thrust out the tip of his tongue and pricked it
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The Motombo
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I aimed at the huge head and let drive
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She thrust herself between him and them
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The most lovely plant that man ever saw
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'Look, O Stephen, the flower has been brought back!'
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The Battle of the Gate
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At length found ourselves in the august presence of Bausi
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For a long while we stared at each other
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The king himself went with us to the west gate of the town
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Drawing a knife from his girdle he thrust out the tip of his tongue and pricked it
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'I am Komba, the Accepted-of-the-Gods'
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One of the hunters was killed
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...Passed it through the flame of the centre one of the three fires
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'Shall we shoot, Imbozwi?' asked the voice of the captain of the archers
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The most lovely plant... that man ever saw
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Reaching Stephen before the Pongo, she thrust herself between him and them
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Delgado was asked for his version of the affair
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Stephen came to his support, and, grappling with an Arab, dashed his head against the gate post so that he fell
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'Look, O Stephen, the flower has been brought back.'
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At length found ourselves in the august presence of Bausi
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I aimed at the huge head and let drive.
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Presently I heard him him call to me in a horrified voice.
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The Motombo.
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The king himself went with us to the west gate of the town.
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Reaching Stephen before the Pongo, she thrust herself between him and them
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...passed it through the flame of the centre one of the three fires.
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'Shall we shoot, Imbozwi?' asked the voice of the captain of the archers.
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Stephen came to his support, and, grappling with an Arab, dashed his head against the gate post so that he fell.
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Drawing a knife from his girdle he thrust out the tip of his tongue and pricked it
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'I am Komba, the Accepted-of-the-gods.'
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Delgado was asked for his version of the affair.
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For a long while we stared at each other
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One of the hunters was killed.
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'The most lovely plant... that man ever saw'
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