Mr. Meeson's Will, by Henry Rider Haggard, H. R. Haggard
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Only a storyteller as preternaturally gifted as action-adventure master H. Rider Haggard could turn a story about a legal battle over publishing rights into a gripping page-turner. Mr. Meeson's Will offers a fascinating glimpse into the legal rights of authors in the nineteenth century -- and a swashbuckling maritime misadventure that comes with a plethora of unpredictable consequences.
Mr. Meeson's Will, by Henry Rider Haggard, H. R. Haggard- Amazon Sales Rank: #4736270 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-26
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .23" w x 8.50" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 100 pages
About the Author Stephen Coan is an assistant editor of The Natal Witness.Henry Rider Haggard (1856 1925) was an English writer whose best-known work is the romantic adventure tale King Solomon's Mines, though he wrote over forty books in his lifetime.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. A LESSER BUT STILL MIGHTY FUN HAGGARD By s.ferber "Mr. Meeson's Will" was first printed in book form in October 1888, after having first appeared earlier that year in "The Illustrated London News." It was H. Rider Haggard's 11th novel (out of 58), and one in which his experiences as both a writer and aspiring lawyer were given vent. The novel is at once a tale of adventure, a critique of the publishing industry in late 19th century England, and a satire on the English legal system. In the book's first half, Augusta Smithers--our heroine and a successful author, who has unwittingly entered into an unfair contract with Meeson's publishing firm--takes passage on board a steamship bound for New Zealand, where she hopes to make a fresh start. Her enemy, Mr. Meeson himself, is on board the same boat, coincidentally, and when the ship sinks after a catastrophic collision with a whaler (in a disaster scene that predates a similar, fictional shipwreck in Haggard's 1905 novel, "The Spirit of Bambatse," not to mention the real-life Titanic disaster of 1912), Augusta, Meeson and several others are washed up on one of the lonely Kerguelen Islands, in the south Indian Ocean. Before his death, Meeson decides to alter his will and, having no other means of doing so, has that testament tattooed upon Augusta's back! This sets up the story for the book's second half, in which a huge court battle takes place regarding the validity of this document. What might have turned out to be a dry exposition of legal procedures in another author's hands is handled quite entertainingly by H. Rider, and the result is a book of adventure in the first half--the shipwreck and marooning scenes are especially fun--and interesting court battles in the second. Haggard must have greatly enjoyed exposing the unfair practices of the publishing system that had tried to cheat him during his early career, much as Meeson & Co. had cheated Augusta. The book, though a lesser title in Haggard's bibliography--and probably a seldom-read one today, at least as compared to such other Haggard titles as "King Solomon's Mines" and "She"--offers ample entertainment value for the modern-day reader, and I do unreservedly recommend it. This book was, by the way, made into a film starring Lon Chaney in 1916, and called "The Grasp of Greed." If it's half as good as its source novel, I would love to see it one day.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Fabulous Story; Shoddy Edition By littleholzer, PhD Sadly, the inordinate amount of typos in the Betancourt/Wildside edition of Haggard's obscure novel make the reading experience nearly unbearable (and I do not mean to indicate the obsolete grammar and punctuation of nineteenth century written English or Haggard's rough renderings of lower class English dialects). The only reason I am suffering through it is because I am writing a dissertation chapter on the text. I have some access to a first edition in my university library's Special Collections, so I know for a fact that the numerous mistakes, misspellings, and inconsistencies do not exist in the original illustrated book (circa 1888). (The Wildside edition also, sadly, excludes these illustrations, which truly were something!) While I remain sympathetic and supportive of the avowed mission of Wildside Press to bring "lost Haggard books back into print," I venture to state that Betancourt could and probably should have employed a careful copy editor to perform a thorough proofreading!Some of the more frustrating examples from the 2001 Betancourt edition:1. "It was on a Tuesday evening that a mightly steamed majestically out of the mouth of the Thames" (40)2. "In a very few seconds it was dune" (60)3. "Eustace stared at the broad fine of letters, which, with the signatures written underneath, might mean [...]" (116)4. "the infant form the City" (176)5. "Notice of appeal, I except" (176) [I think it was supposed to be "I expect"!]6. Finally, in the editor's Introduction to the text, Haggard's most well known character Allan Quatermain's name is misspelled twice, as Quaterman.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Bizarre but uninvolving Victorian story By MamaSylvia eBook downloaded free from Gutenberg. Beautiful authoress Augusta Smithers flees to New Zealand, and her fellow traveller is the selfish publisher Meeson whose refusal to pay her a fair price for her best-seller she blames for her invalid sister's death. But when they are shipwrecked and the dying Meeson wants to leave his fortune to Eustace, the nephew he disinherited for her sake, Augusta bears having it tattooed onto her skin and after being rescued, she returns to England so Eustace can claim his inheritance.Although I can't point to any particular flaws, I never got involved in the story. The characters are fairly one-note but not obnoxiously so, and the story moved along as well as anything written around 1888. But it never held my interest; I got halfway through and then skipped to the end.
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