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        Henderson The Rain King


        setting

        Africa; Connecticut

        time

        1950s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1959

        page count

        341

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Eugene Henderson, King Dahfu

        Rip's impressions

        Classic Bellow: cynical but never pessimistic, humourous and witty; a lesson always learned by wounded hero.

        first line

        What made me take this trip to Africa? There is no quick explanation. Things got worse and worse and worse and pretty soon they were too complicated.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)