She
$20.93
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
23 May 2001
Summary
A powerful adventure story featuring Ayesha - she who must be obeyed
On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father’s quest to find this remote race. To find out for himself if the story is true, Leo and his companions set sail for Zanzibar. There, he is brought face to face with Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed- dictator, femme …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140437638 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140437630 |
| Author: | H. Rider Haggard |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 23 May 2001 |
| Weight: | 259g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 128mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“A strange book … full of hidden meaning.” - Sigmund Freud
“A strange book … full of hidden meaning.” —Sigmund Freud
About The Author
H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) worked in South Africa during the time of Britian’s war with the Zulus and the First Boer War. He turned these experiences into fiction on his return to England and achieved popular and critical acclaim with KING SOLOMON’S MINES (1885), ALLAN QUATERMAIN (1887) and SHE (1887).
Patrick Brantlinger is Professor of English at Indiana University, Illinois. He has published work on British literature and imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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