She

H. Rider Haggard

Mar 2014 · Ayesha Book 1 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

H. Rider Haggard’s classic tale of fantasy and adventure set in a lost world ruled by a two-thousand-year-old queen
On the occasion of his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the locked iron box that is his birthright and finds an ancient potsherd. Following clues engraved on the relic, Vincey and the man who raised him, Cambridge professor Horace Holly, embark on a remarkable adventure that will take them from Victorian England to an uncharted region in East Africa. Surviving shipwreck, disease, and hostile natives, they discover a lost civilization no European has ever encountered—or lived to describe. They have entered the realm of the cruel and beautiful Ayesha, known to those who worship her as “She-who-must-be-obeyed.” For two thousand years, the white queen has been waiting—for what, Vincey and Holly are about to find out.
One of the bestselling novels of all time, She has held readers in its thrall for more than a century. Alongside Haggard’s other classic, King Solomon’s Mines, it established the conventions of the lost world fantasy genre, and has inspired some of our greatest thinkers and writers, from Sigmund Freud to J. R. R. Tolkien to Margaret Atwood.
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Ratings and reviews

While I like the overall story, I found it a little tedious at times. There is a little too much exposition for my taste. Once we get to meet SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED it moves along much faster, but that isn't until almost half way into the story. Before that is several pages of Greek and Latin and also pages of untranslated characters that the nook doesn't recognize (supposed to be Egyptian hieroglyphs possibly). I think it's more a style of writing of that time that I find somewhat tedious, though I don't remember it being so prominent in King Solomon's Mines. It's a good story, if you can get through the first half.

An enjoyable book. An interesting travel tale somewhat in the vein "20,000 Leagues" but with a deliberate mystical slant. Reminiscent of Anne Rice's "The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned" too. Am exciting story with a mostly satisfying ending.

Enjoyable phraseology. Not a happy story, but interesting. Now I know where Rumpole got his nickname for his wife.

About the author

DIVDIVH. Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English adventure novelist. Haggard studied law, but rather than pursuing a legal career took a secretarial position in what is now South Africa. His time there provided the inspiration for some of his most popular novels, including She (1887), an early classic of the lost world fantasy genre and one of the bestselling books of all time. /div/div