Allan Quatermain

The MediaBook studio presents an audiobook by the famous English novelist Henry Rider Haggard — “Allan Quatermain” — the first in the eponymous cult series. His work is widely known here through books like “King Solomon’s Mines” and “A Daughter of Montezuma”, but those two works are only a small part of the author’s rich creative legacy.

“I recently buried my boy—my dear boy, whom I was so proud of. My heart is broken. So hard—to have only one son and to lose him. God’s will! And I couldn’t do anything about it. May I complain? Can I complain? The wheel of fate turns relentlessly and catches all of us one after another—some sooner, others later—and in the end destroys us all. We do not bow down to the inexorable fate like poor Indians; we try to run this way or that, we cry for mercy… but it’s useless! A grim fate thunders over us like thunder and turns us into dust and ashes…“