novelnovelFinishedFinishednovelNovelhttps://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/haggard/editions/images/000/000/84/original/finishedWard1917Cover.jpeg?1480715612Finished is an Allan Quatermain adventure and the last novel in a trilogy preceded by Marie (1912) and Child of Storm (1913). Haggard based portions of his romance on historical events. Notably, Allan survives the Bat...<em>Finished</em> is an Allan Quatermain adventure and the last novel in a trilogy preceded by <em>Marie</em> (1912) and <em>Child of Storm</em> (1913). Haggard based portions of his romance on historical events. Notably, Allan survives the Battle...Finished is an Allan Quatermain adventure and the last novel in a trilogy preceded by Marie (1912) and Child of Storm (1913). Haggard based portions of his romance on historical events. Notably, Allan survives the Battle of Isandhlwana, part of the Anglo-Zulu War (1879), and he witnesses Zulu King Cetewayo's final moments. Haggard dedicated Finished to his friend and the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. Ward, Lock, and Co., Ltd., London, published the first edition of Finished on 10 August 1917. This edition included a frontispiece by A. C. Michael. 15,000 copies issued. The first US edition, published in 1917 by Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, also used Michael’s frontispiece. Macdonald & Co., London, published an edition of Finished with an illustrated dust jacket in 1962. Further Reading Whatmore, D. E. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F44, 60-61. Print.
Finished is an Allan Quatermain adventure and the last novel in a trilogy preceded by Marie (1912) and Child of Storm (1913). Haggard based portions of his romance on historical events. Notably, Allan survives the Battle of Isandhlwana, part of the Anglo-Zulu War (1879), and he witnesses Zulu King Cetewayo's final moments. Haggard dedicated Finished to his friend and the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.
Ward, Lock, and Co., Ltd., London, published the first edition of Finished on 10 August 1917. This edition included a frontispiece by A. C. Michael. 15,000 copies issued. The first US edition, published in 1917 by Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, also used Michael’s frontispiece. Macdonald & Co., London, published an edition of Finished with an illustrated dust jacket in 1962.
Further Reading
Whatmore, D. E. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F44, 60-61. Print.