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She : a history of adventure / H. Rider Haggard ; introduction by Margaret Atwood ; illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and Charles H.M. Kerr ; notes by James Danly.
- Title
- She : a history of adventure / H. Rider Haggard ; introduction by Margaret Atwood ; illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and Charles H.M. Kerr ; notes by James Danly.
- Author
- Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
- Publication
- New York : Modern Library, 2002.
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| Text | Request in advance | PR4731 .S6 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxiv, 334 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "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.""--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- The Modern Library classics
- Uniform Title
- Modern Library classics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Adventure fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Love stories
- Fiction
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Margaret Atwood -- My Visitor -- The Years Roll by -- The Sherd of Amenartas -- The Squall -- The Head of the Ethiopian -- An Early Christian Ceremony -- Ustane Sings -- The Feast, and After! -- A Little Foot -- Speculations -- The Plain of Kor -- "She" -- Ayesha Unveils -- A Soul in Hell -- Ayesha Gives Judgment -- The Tombs of Kor -- The Balance Turns -- "Go, Woman!" -- "Give Me a Black Goat!" -- Triumph -- The Dead and Living Meet.
- Job Has a Presentiment -- The Temple of Truth -- Walking the Plank -- The Spirit of Life -- What We Saw -- We Leap -- Over the Mountain.
- ISBN
- 0375759050
- LCCN
- ^^2001044583
- OCLC
- 48046101
- SCSB-12635275
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library