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Laddar... Belshazzar (1928)av Henry Rider Haggard
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An addition to the Leonaur Ancient Adventures series by H. Rider Haggard Rider Haggard is one of the most famous authors of adventure fiction in the English language. Almost everyone has heard of Allan Quatermain-the hero of King Solomon's Mines-and the beautiful, ruthless, magically immortal Ayesha-She 'who must be obeyed.' All of Haggard's novels and stories featuring both characters are available in handsome Leonaur editions. Haggard was a prolific writer so it is not surprising that only a few of his titles are widely known-and read-by an audience which would enjoy them all. The essential elements of his most famous creations-the great African continent and ancient civilisations, mysterious and exotic, mythical, imagined or real, are combined in a number of his novels and stories and these too have now been collected by Leonaur into a special four volume set-African Adventures. Readers will therefore be unsurprised to learn that Haggard could not resist writing a number of tales about ancient civilisations, or that in these he naturally gravitated towards the most evocative of them all-the world of the Ancient Egyptians and the other peoples of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. This is a stunning body of fiction which Leonaur has gathered together into a five volume set-each successive volume following a chronological time-line along the sweeping march of history. Volume five-an additional volume-in the Rider Haggard series of stories set in the Ancient world contains a single novel, 'Belshazzar.' Ramose is the offspring of an Egyptian Pharaoh and a Greek woman. Brought up in a life of luxury he is catapulted into a life of adventure which leads him to the fall of Babylon at the hand of the Persian Empire under Cyrus. Available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jacket. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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I didn’t think much of it. For one thing, it was boring. For another, Ramose’s mysoginistic attitude really put me off, especially his utter lack of respect for his mother Chloe. There was this bit where the new Pharoah who had overthrown Ramose’s father is coming to visit them, Chloe is happy and Ramose is horrified that she’s happy.
“Don’t you realise this is the man who killed your lord, the father of your son?”
“He was my lord, but he loved me for a few years then got tired of me and married me off to another man. And he was your father, but he tried to have you executed on trumped up charges. It’s only thanks to this new Pharoah giving you his protection that you’re still alive, and for that I’d forgive him anything - besides, he didn’t kill your father, his men did that without his knowledge.”
*disapproving head shake* “Typical shallow woman. He killed her lord and the father of her son, but because he’s Pharoah she welcomes him like a god.”
Plus, of course, the fact that Ramose married his daughter. He was constantly saying “She is not my daughter”. Dude, you may not share any DNA but you raised her from a toddler and she called you 'Father’ until she was an adult. She’s your daughter and you are gross. This made it very hard to root for the characters, since them settling down to a life of wedded bliss is not what I consider a happy ending. ( )