Marie (novel)

Marie
First US edition, (1917 dustjacket, picture appears as frontispiece of 1st UK edition)
Author	H. Rider Haggard
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Allan Quatermain Series
Publisher	Cassell (UK) Longman & Co. (US)
Publication date	1912
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	346
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	Nada the Lily
Followed by	Child of Storm

Marie is 1912 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. The plot concerns Quatermain as a young man and involves his first marriage, to the Boer farm girl, Marie Marais. Their romance is opposed by Marie's anti-English father, and the villainous Pereira, who desires Marie. They are Voortrekkers who take part in the Great Trek whom Quatermain has to rescue.

The novel describes Quatermain's involvement in the Sixth Xhosa War of 1835 and Weenen massacre. Real life people such as Piet Retief, Thomas Halstead, and the Zulu chief Dingane appear as characters. Events in Nada the Lily are frequently referred to.

External links

Marie at Project Gutenberg

Works by Sir Henry Rider Haggard

Fiction

1880s	Dawn (1884) The Witch's Head (1884) King Solomon's Mines (1885) She (1886) Jess (1886) Allan Quatermain (1887) Mr Meeson's Will (1888) Maiwa's Revenge (1888) Colonel Quaritch, VC (1888) Cleopatra (1889) Allan's Wife (1889) Beatrice (1889)

1890s	The World's Desire (1890) Eric Brighteyes (1891) Nada the Lily (1892) Montezuma's Daughter (1893) The People of the Mist (1894) Joan Haste (1895) Heart of the World (1895) The Wizard (1896) Doctor Therne (1898) Swallow (1898)

1900s	Elissa (1900) Lysbeth (1901) Pearl Maiden (1903) Stella Fregelius (1904) The Brethren (1904) Ayesha: The Return of She (1905) The Way of the Spirit (1906) Benita (1906) Fair Margaret (1907) The Ghost Kings (1908) The Yellow God (1908) The Lady of Blossholme (1909)

1910s	Queen Sheba's Ring (1910) Morning Star (1910) Red Eve (1911) The Mahatma and the Hare (1911) Marie (1912) Child of Storm (1913) The Wanderer's Necklace (1913) Allan and the Holy Flower (1915) The Ivory Child (1916) Finished (1917) Love Eternal (1918) Moon of Israel (1918) When the World Shook (1919)

1920s	The Ancient Allan (1920) Smith and the Pharaohs (1920) She and Allan (1921) The Virgin of the Sun (1922) Wisdom's Daughter (1923) Heu-Heu (1924) Queen of the Dawn (1925) The Treasure of the Lake (1926) Allan and the Ice-gods (1927) Mary of Marion Isle (1929)

1930s	Belshazzar (1930)

Genres	Fantasy Romance Science-Fiction Historical Fable Gothic Adventure

Non-fiction

Cetywayo and His White Neighbours (1872)
A Farmer's Year (1899)
The Last Boer War (1899)
A Winter Pilgrimage (1901)
Rural England (1902)
The Poor and the Land (1905)
A Gardener's Year (1905)
Regeneration (1910)
Rural Denmark (1911)
The Days of My Life (Autobiography, 1926)

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines

Characters	Allan Quatermain Sir Henry Curtis José Silvestre

Sequels	Allan Quatermain (1887) Maiwa's Revenge (1888) Allan's Wife (1889) Marie (1912) Child of Storm (1913) Allan and the Holy Flower (1915) The Ivory Child (1916) Finished (1917) The Ancient Allan (1920) She and Allan (1921) Allan and the Ice Gods (1927)

Films	King Solomon's Mines (1937) King Solomon's Mines (1950) Watusi (1959 sequel) King Solomon's Treasure (1979) King Solomon's Mines (1985) Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986) King Solomon's Mines (2004) Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)

Related	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen