Mary of Marion Isle

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Mary of Marion Isle
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First US edition
Author H. Rider Haggard
Cover artistFrank Peers
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Hutchinson & Co (UK)
Doubleday Doran (US)
Publication date
1929
Publication placeUnited Kingdom

Mary of Marion Isle is a 1929 novel by H Rider Haggard. It was his penultimate novel and was published posthumously. [1] [2] Haggard originally came up with the idea for the novel in 1916 while travelling on a ship from South Africa to Australia and glancing at the islands they passed on the way there. [3]

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References

  1. Review in the Spectator accessed 21 December 2013
  2. "Novels Reviewed". The Chronicle . Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 29 June 1933. p. 2. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  3. Higgins, D.S. (1981). Rider Haggard: The Great Storyteller. London: Cassell. p. 226. ISBN   0304308277.