| Morning Star | |
| Author: | H. Rider Haggard |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Cassell (UK) Longmans Green (US) |
| Release Date: | 1910 |
Morning Star is a historical novel with fantasy elements by H Rider Haggard, set in Ancient Egypt.[1] [2]
The novel is set some time after the expulsion of the Hyksos from Egypt (around 1500-1200 BCE). It focuses on the titular heroine, named Neter-Tua ("Morning Star").
The Australian newspaper The World's News described Morning Star as "a very exciting and cleverly constructed romance".[3] Roger Lancelyn Green praised Morning Star as "one of the best re-creations of Ancient Egypt ever written."[4] E. F. Bleiler described Morning Star as "well-structured, but with a vein of cruelty in the excursion of the wholly-other into human life."