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She (World's Classics) Book

Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death. Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that [Ayesha] had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that [H. Rider] Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverish inspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down," he later said. This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic female figures who must be stopped before they love again." Read More

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  • Product Description

    As with the companion volume "King Solomon's Mines", this is the only available annotated edition of Haggard's adventure story, "She". An Englishman undertakes a quest to find Ayesha, the mysterious white queen of a Central African tribe - a monstrous and desirable female.

  • 0192827677
  • 9780192827678
  • H. Rider Haggard
  • 1 March 1991
  • Oxford Paperbacks
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 332
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