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She: A History of Adventure

✍ Scribed by Haggard, H. Rider

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group;Modern Library
Year: 2011;2002
Tongue: English
Weight: 1 MB
Edition: Modern Library
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0307808025

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✦ Synopsis

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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