The Holy Flower

Allan and the Holy Flower
1917 Ward Lock edition
Author	H. Rider Haggard
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Allan Quatermain Series
Publisher	Ward Lock & Co
Publication date	1915
Preceded by	Child of Storm
Followed by	Finished

Allan and the Holy Flower is a 1915 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. It first appeared serialised in The Windsor Magazine.^[1] The plot involves Quatermain going on a trek into Africa to find a mysterious flower.

Plot

Brother John, who has been wandering in Africa for years, confides to Allan a huge and rare orchid, the largest ever found. Allan arrives to England with the flower and there he meets Mr. Somers, an orchid collector who is willing to finance an expedition to find the plant.

Bibliography

Title: Allan and the Holy Flower
Author: Henry Rider Haggard
Editor: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1915
384 pages
Language: English
Series: Allan Quatermain
Genre: Adventure

References

↑ H. Rider Haggard - The Holy Flower

External links

Allan and the Holy Flower at Project Gutenberg
Dagny's Reviews > Allan and the Holy Flower
Allan and the Holy Flower public domain audiobook at LibriVox

Works by H. Rider Haggard

Fiction	Dawn (1884) The Witch's Head (1885) King Solomon's Mines (1885) She (1886) Jess (1886) Allan Quatermain (1887) Mr Meeson's Will (1888) Maiwa's Revenge (1888) Colonel Quaritch, VC (1888) Cleopatra (1889) Allan's Wife (1889) Beatrice (1889) The World's Desire (1890) Eric Brighteyes (1891) Nada the Lily (1892) Montezuma's Daughter (1893) The People of the Mist (1894) Joan Haste (1895) Heart of the World (1895) The Wizard (1896) Doctor Therne (1898) Swallow (1898) Elissa (1900) Lysbeth (1901) Pearl Maiden (1903) Stella Fregelius (1904) The Brethren (1904) Ayesha: The Return of She (1905) The Way of the Spirit (1906) Benita (1906) Fair Margaret (1907) The Ghost Kings (1908) The Yellow God (1908) The Lady of Blossholme (1909) Queen Sheba's Ring (1910) Morning Star (1910) Red Eve (1911) The Mahatma and the Hare (1911) Marie (1912) Child of Storm (1913) The Wanderer's Necklace (1913) Allan and the Holy Flower (1915) The Ivory Child (1916) Finished (1917) Love Eternal (1918) Moon of Israel (1918) When the World Shook (1919) The Ancient Allan (1920) Smith and the Pharaohs (1920) She and Allan (1921) The Virgin of the Sun (1922) Wisdom's Daughter (1923) Heu-Heu (1924) Queen of the Dawn (1925) The Treasure of the Lake (1926) Allan and the Ice-gods (1927) Mary of Marion Isle (1929) Belshazzar (1930)

Non-fiction	Cetywayo and His White Neighbours (1882) A Farmer's Year (1899) The Last Boer War (1899) A Winter Pilgrimage (1901) Rural England (1902) The Poor and the Land (1905) A Gardener's Year (1905) Regeneration (1910) Rural Denmark (1911) The Days of My Life (Autobiography, 1926)

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines

Characters	Allan Quatermain Sir Henry Curtis José Silvestre

Sequels & prequels	Allan Quatermain (1887) Maiwa's Revenge (1888) Allan's Wife (1889) Marie (1912) Child of Storm (1913) Allan and the Holy Flower (1915) The Ivory Child (1916) Finished (1917) The Ancient Allan (1920) She and Allan (1921) Allan and the Ice Gods (1927)

Films	King Solomon's Mines (1937) King Solomon's Mines (1950) Watusi (1959 sequel) King Solomon's Treasure (1979) King Solomon's Mines (1985) Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986) King Solomon's Mines (2004) Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)

Related	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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