by H. Rider Haggard · Oxford Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192835505
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«She» is the adventure and fantasy novel by H. Rider Haggard, published by Oxford Paperbacks in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Leo Vincey inherits a legend about a white immortal sorceress who reigns over an African tribe. He travels to Zanzibar and meets Ayesha, «She-who-must-be-obeyed», a tyrannical beauty who has waited for centuries for the descendant of her murdered lover. Adventure, romance and mystery in a Victorian classic.
It belongs to the Oxford World's Classics collection, is the first installment of the «Ayesha» series and features an edition by Daniel Karlin.
General readers interested in Victorian classics and fantasy adventures with mythological roots.
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. He was also involved in land reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature and including the eighteen Allan Quatermain stories beginning with King Solomon's Mines, continue to be popular and influential.
