Benita (novel)
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Author | H. Rider Haggard |
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Illustrator | Gordon Browne |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Publisher | Cassell & Company |
Publication date | 1906 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | vi, 334 pages |
Benita: An African Romance (alternatively titled The Spirit of Bambatse) is a novel by H. Rider Haggard.[1]
Publication history[]
The novel was first published in serial form in Cassell's Magazine in the December 1905 through May 1906 issues; the first hardcover edition followed from Cassell & Company, London, 7 September 1906.[2][3] Cassell reissued the title in 1920 and 1926. Subsequent British editions were published by Chariot Books in 1952[3] and Macdonald & Co. in 1965.[2] An ebook edition was issued by Project Gutenberg in March 2006.[3]
The first U.S. edition was published by Longmans, Green and Co. in 1906 under the alternate title The Spirit of Bambatse, A Romance, which was Haggard's preferred title and was used for most later American editions.[2][3] The significance of the collection was recognized by its republication (also as The Spirit of Bambatse) by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the twenty-second volume of the Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in October, 1979. The Newcastle edition was reissued by Wildside Press in February 2001.[3][4]
The novel has also been gathered together with Haggard's Ayesha: The Return of She (1905) into the omnibus collection Ayesha: The Return of She / Benita: An African Romance (New Orchard, 1989).[3]
Plot[]
In an adventure mingling romance and the supernatural, the clairvoyant heroine Benita assists in a hunt for a lost Portuguese treasure buried in the Transvaal.
Notes[]
- ^ "RIDER HAGGARD'S LATEST". The Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 8 September 1906. p. 9. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
- ^ a b c "Benita [The Spirit of Bambatse" at [visualhaggard.org].
- ^ a b c d e f Benita: An African Romance title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ The Spirit of Bambatse title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
External links[]
- Novels by H. Rider Haggard
- 1906 British novels
- 1906 fantasy novels