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The Ancient Allan|H. Rider Haggard

Overview

Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two exceptions perhaps) of all the experiences which it has amused me to employ my idle hours in recording here in a strange land, for after all England is strange to me. I grow elderly. I have, as I suppose, passed the period of enterprise and adventure and I should be well satisfied with the lot that Fate has given to my unworthy self. To begin with, I am still alive and in health when by all the rules I should have been dead many times over. I suppose I ought to be thankful for that but, before expressing an opinion on the point, I should have to be quite sure whether it is better to be alive or dead. The religious plump for the latter, though I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781502855930
  • ISBN-10: 1502855933
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: October 2014
  • Dimensions: 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.76 pounds
  • Page Count: 188

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