Picking up where The Kings Assegai (1894) left off, The White Shield (1895) continues the story of Untúswa, the young Zulu warrior, now one of the chief indunas to King Umzilikazi.
The Ndebele people, now an established and prosperous nation, seek to expand their power by conquering neighbouring peoples, but Umzilikazi and Untúswa face a number of dangers. Within the tribe, a conspiracy is brewing to overthrow them, and meanwhile, the young Ndebele nation risks destruction from external forces, such as white Boer settlers and the ferocious Zulu army. With the help of...
Picking up where The Kings Assegai (1894) left off, The White Shield (1895) continues the story of Untúswa, the young Zulu warrior, ...
"It would be difficult to find a novel more unusual or more original. That it is beautifully written, full of poetic passages, and contains many fascinating descriptions ...] will be regarded as a matter of course by those who have read any of his] preceding books, and therefore know that John Trevena is unquestionably one of the most notable of living writers." - "New York Times," Jan. 10, 1915 "The construction of the book is very artistic and is difficult to accomplish, but apart from its structural merits 'Sleeping Waters' has high value. ...] Our admiration for this author has...
"It would be difficult to find a novel more unusual or more original. That it is beautifully written, full of poetic passages, and contains many fasci...
" A] book of strange adventures, of ghostly, nightmare visions; you will want to read it at a sitting, but do not begin it at bedtime unless your nerves are in a thoroughly healthy condition" - "The Reader" " Q]uite a remarkable book . . . Mr. Henham has the exceptional gift of lending an atmosphere of reality to the fantastic. . . . Some people will find the book enthralling: others may pronounce it quite mad, but everyone must recognise its undeniable cleverness." - "The Outlook" "This strange story . . . has a tropical luxuriance of imagination quite unusual in works by English...
" A] book of strange adventures, of ghostly, nightmare visions; you will want to read it at a sitting, but do not begin it at bedtime unless your nerv...
Gaston De Latour is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. Pater's novel, unfinished and first posthumously published in 1896, is accompanied by a scholarly Introduction, Explanatory Annotation, and Apparatus Criticus.
Gaston De Latour is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. Pater's novel, unfinished and first posthumously published in ...
