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  She (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) (Paperback) By (author) H. Rider Haggard, Edited by Daniel Karlin

  

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  Short Description for SheAyesha is a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca.
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Published: 12 June 2008
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Adventure | Fantasy
  • ISBN 13: 9780199536429 ISBN 10: 0199536422
  • Sales rank: 24,670

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• 'My empire is of the imagination.' These are the words of Ayesha, the mysterious white queen of a Central African tribe, whose dread title, 'She-who-must-be-obeyed', testifies to her undying beauty and magical powers; but they serve equally well to describe the hold of her author, Henry Rider Haggard, on generations of readers. Writing 'at white heat', and in the flush of success after the publication of King Solomon's Mines, Haggard drew again on his knowledge of Africa and of ancient legends, but also on something deeper and more disturbing. To the Englishmen who journey through shipwreck, fever, and cannibals to her hidden realm, 'She' is the goal of a quest bequeathed to them two thousand years before; to Haggard's readers, 'She' is the embodiment of one of the most potent and ambivalent figures of Western mythology, a female who is both monstrous and desirable - and, without question, deadlier than the male.