Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set largely in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. The Allan`s Wife novel celebrated Allan Quatermain series, this book tells more stories of Quartermain`s time in South Africa — presenting his observations about two dueling witch doctors, his father`s death, and, eventually, the fate of his wife, Stella.