The third novel H. Rider Haggards celebrated Allan Quatermain series, this tale is not exactly about Quartermains wife, at least not to begin with.Allans Wife tells more stories of Quartermains time in South Africapresenting his observations about two dueling witch doctors, his fathers death, and, eventually, the fate of his wife, Stella.

Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a British civil servant and novelist whose tales of mystery, romance, and rip-roaring adventure deeply influenced subsequent generations of writers.  Haggard is most famous as the author of the novelKing Solomons Mines, whose Allan Quartermain was the inspiration for the character Indiana Jones in theRaiders of the Lost Ark movies.