She: A History of Adventure (Modern Library Classics)
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0375759050 / Publisher: Modern Library, January 2002
A courageous late-nineteenth-century Englishman sets out to avenge his ancestor's lover who was murdered by an elusive, compelling, and eternal white African queen.
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A runaway bestseller on its publication in 1887, H. Rider Haggard’s She is a Victorian thrill ride of a novel, featuring a lost African kingdom ruled by a mysterious, implacable queen; ferocious wildlife and yawning abysses; and an eerie love story that spans two thousand years. She has bewitched readers from Freud and Jung to C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien; in her Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic—which includes period illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and Charles H. M. Kerr—Margaret Atwood asserts that the awe-inspiring Ayesha, “She-who-must-be-obeyed,” is “a permanent feature of the human imagination.”
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