Finished (novel)

Finished
First edition
Author	H. Rider Haggard
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Allan Quatermain Series
Publisher	Ward Lock & Co
Publication date	1917
Preceded by	Child of Storm

Finished is a 1917 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. It is the last in a trilogy about the Zulu kingdom, which also includes Marie and Child of Storm, and involved the dwarf Zikali.

It is set against the background of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, covering events leading up to the war, and ending with the death of Cetewayo. Quatermain is depicted as being one of the few survivors of the Battle of Isandhlwana. Like others in the series, several real-life characters appear, such as Cetewayo and Anthony Durnford.

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Finished at Project Gutenberg

Finished was serialized in Adventure in 1917

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 & prequels	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

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