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The World's Desire
H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang
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H. Rider Haggard (author of King Solomon's Mines the Allan Quatermain Series, and many more) and Andrew Lang (author of, among others, the rainbow colored fairy tale books) collaborate to lend their talent to one of the most fascinating and well known stories of all times. Odysseus returns home from the war, but does not find the peace and quiet which he craves. His home is ravaged, and his wife Penelope is dead. He communicates with an old flame, the beautiful Helen of Troy, who sends him to his ultimate and defining last journey. Read about his adventures, and what might have been, in this beautiful novel by two of Britain's best Victorian novelists.
H. Rider Haggard (author of King Solomon's Mines the Allan Quatermain Series, and many more) and Andrew Lang (author of, among others, the rainbow colored fairy tale books) collaborate to lend their talent to one of the most fascinating and well known stories of all times. Odysseus returns home from the war, but does not find the peace and quiet which he craves. His home is ravaged, and his wife Penelope is dead. He communicates with an old flame, the beautiful Helen of Troy, who sends him to his ultimate and defining last journey. Read about his adventures, and what might have been, in this beautiful novel by two of Britain's best Victorian novelists.
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"But she laughed softly now that her anger was spent, and I led him forth to seek a physician, who should bind up his wound. And when he was gone, I returned, and spoke to her, wringing my hands.
"'Oh, Royal Lady, what hast thou done? Thou knowest well that thy divine father destines thee to wed the Prince of Kush whom but now thou didst smite so fiercely.'
"'Nay, Rei, I will none of him—the dull clod, who is called the son of Pharaoh. Moreover, he is my half-brother, and it is not meet that I should wed my brother. For nature cries aloud against the custom of the land.'
"'Nevertheless, Lady, it is the custom of thy Royal house, and thy father's will. Thus the Gods, thine ancestors, were wed; Isis to Osiris. Thus great Thothmes and Amenemhat did and decreed, and all their forefathers and all their s. . . Read More
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Odysseus's last voyage, and Helen's last fling. Very stirring, set in Egypt at the time of the 10 plagues, complete with the Slaves/let my people go elements. Loads of spooky supernatural happenings, prophecies, imaginative description. I sense this may have been one source for Raiders of the Lost A
Beautifully written and very dramatic. For some reason it was slow going for me, even though I enjoyed it quite a lot. I think the characters always seemed so mythical that I couldn't identify well with them. I'm sure that was the intent of the authors, and it was done well, but it might explain why
The World's Desire is a sequel to the Odyssey, largely set in biblical Egypt and featuring an evil sorceress queen and the lovely Helen of Troy. It is, I think, more more Christian than pagan and more Hollywood than Homeric epic. It's also one of those incredibly serious pieces of romantic writing t
An interesting 19th century fantasy tale of the further adventures of Odysseus, aka the Wanderer, by H. Rider Haggard, one of the great adventure writers of his time, in collaboration with Andrew Lang, best known for his voluminous compilations of Fairy stories. Odysseus returns home from a further
True confession: I have never actually read The Iliad or The Odyssey. (Someday. Someday.) But I don't believe that materially impacted my enjoyment of this book, in which H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang, in a piece of ... fan fiction? two and a half thousand years after the fact, took up the tale o
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It has been a long time since i haven't finished a book but i feel justified on this occasion, not because the writing is particularly bad but because i've read this freaking story at least 3 or 4 times already.
Its Haggards same tired eternal love-triangle shtick same as She and The Return of
The sequel to the Odyssey, written in Homer’s style.
My favourite book as a child was Tales of the Greek Heroes, by Roger Lancelyn Green. I passed this on to my son (who has reread it an acceptable number of times!), and I happened to notice an afterward in this new edition of my son’s. Green attrib
What a fitting sequel this curious little novel is to The Odyssey! Co-authored by Haggard, a gifted writer with a penchant for crafting fantastic adventure novels, and Lang, a brilliant translator and pioneering folklorist, The World's Desire is a romance rife with magical spells, dark divinations,