She
A History of Adventure
Published on 30. November 2011
368 pages
978-0-307-80802-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than twenty-five books, including works of fiction, poetry, and essays. Her most recent novel is The Blind Assassin. She lives in Toronto.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Biographical Note
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction by Margaret Atwood
- Introduction
- I: My Visitor
- II: The Years Roll By
- III: The Sherd of Amenartas
- IV: The Squall
- V: The Head of the Ethiopian
- VI: An Early Christian Ceremony
- VII: Ustane Sings
- VIII: The Feast, and After!
- IX: A Little Foot
- X: Speculations
- XI: The Plain of Kôr
- XII: "She"
- XIII: Ayesha Unveils
- XIV: A Soul in Hell
- XV: Ayesha Gives Judgment
- XVI: The Tombs of Kôr
- XVII: The Balance Turns
- XVIII: "Go, Woman!"
- XIX: "Give Me a Black Goat!"
- XX: Triumph
- XXI: The Dead and Living Meet
- XXII: Job Has a Presentiment
- XXIII: The Temple of Truth
- XXIV: Walking the Plank
- XXV: The Spirit of Life
- XXVI: What We Saw
- XXVII: We Leap
- XXVIII: Over the Mountain
- Notes
- Reading Group Guide
- A Note on the Text
- Dedication
