බාබරාගේ පුනරාගමනය

by H. Rider Haggard, ප්‍රභාත් මිරිහාගල්ල (Translator)

This is the tale of Barbara, Barbara who came back to save a soul alive. The Reverend Septimus Walrond was returning from a professional visit to a distant cottage of his remote and straggling parish upon the coast of East Anglia. His errand had been sad, to baptise the dying infant of a fisherman, which just as the rate was finished wailed once feebly and expired in his arms. The Reverend Septimus was weeping over the sorrows of the world. Tears ran down his white but rounded face, for he was stout of habit, and fell upon his clerical coat that was green with age and threadbare with use. Although the evening was so cold he held his broad-brimmed hat in his hand, and the wind from the moaning sea tossed his snow-white hair. He was talking to himself, as was his fashion on these lonely walks.

199 pages, Paperback

First published November 17, 2012

About the author

Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved in agricultural reform and improvement in the British Empire.

His breakout novel was King Solomon's Mines (1885), which was to be the first in a series telling of the multitudinous adventures of its protagonist, Allan Quatermain.

Haggard was made a Knight Bachelor in 1912 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Conservative candidate for the Eastern division of Norfolk in 1895. The locality of Rider, British Columbia, was named in his memory.

Reviews

[Trounin · Rating 3 out of 5]

«Барбара вернулась» и «Цветочек» — рассказы, расширенные до размера повести. Общее между ними одно — они стали частью сборника «Суд фараонов». Смысловое наполнение разнится. В рассказе «Барбара вернулась» читатель видит элементы мистики, напоминающие о другом произведении — «Всего лишь сон». Предстоит гадать, насколько Хаггард вкладывал идею при создании повествования. Читателю может показаться, будто некая Барбара вернулась к жизни, будучи смертельно больной, чтобы исцелять других. Оставим это для понимания въедливого читателя, готового разобраться до конца с тем, о чём ему так настойчиво желал сообщить Хаггард.

(c) Trounin