Books with title She

* Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings and delightful sketches from early editions, She is one of the greatest adventure tales of all time. 'She' has sold many millions of copies since its publication well over a hundred years ago. The fantastic story follows the fortunes of three Englishmen who venture to Africa in search of a mystical treasure. Along the way they enter lands ruled by a fearsome white queen known as 'She Who Must Be Obeyed' whose beauty is so great that no man can fail to be entranced by it.* This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images carefully selected by our team of professional editors.

* Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings and delightful sketches from early editions, She is one of the greatest adventure tales of all time. 'She' has sold many millions of copies since its publication well over a hundred years ago. The fantastic story follows the fortunes of three Englishmen who venture to Africa in search of a mystical treasure. Along the way they enter lands ruled by a fearsome white queen known as 'She Who Must Be Obeyed' whose beauty is so great that no man can fail to be entranced by it.* This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images carefully selected by our team of professional editors.

* Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings and delightful sketches from early editions, She is one of the greatest adventure tales of all time. 'She' has sold many millions of copies since its publication well over a hundred years ago. The fantastic story follows the fortunes of three Englishmen who venture to Africa in search of a mystical treasure. Along the way they enter lands ruled by a fearsome white queen known as 'She Who Must Be Obeyed' whose beauty is so great that no man can fail to be entranced by it.* This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images carefully selected by our team of professional editors.

* Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings and delightful sketches from early editions, She is one of the greatest adventure tales of all time. 'She' has sold many millions of copies since its publication well over a hundred years ago. The fantastic story follows the fortunes of three Englishmen who venture to Africa in search of a mystical treasure. Along the way they enter lands ruled by a fearsome white queen known as 'She Who Must Be Obeyed' whose beauty is so great that no man can fail to be entranced by it.* This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images carefully selected by our team of professional editors.

* Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings and delightful sketches from early editions, She is one of the greatest adventure tales of all time. 'She' has sold many millions of copies since its publication well over a hundred years ago. The fantastic story follows the fortunes of three Englishmen who venture to Africa in search of a mystical treasure. Along the way they enter lands ruled by a fearsome white queen known as 'She Who Must Be Obeyed' whose beauty is so great that no man can fail to be entranced by it.* This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images carefully selected by our team of professional editors.

* Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings and delightful sketches from early editions, She is one of the greatest adventure tales of all time. 'She' has sold many millions of copies since its publication well over a hundred years ago. The fantastic story follows the fortunes of three Englishmen who venture to Africa in search of a mystical treasure. Along the way they enter lands ruled by a fearsome white queen known as 'She Who Must Be Obeyed' whose beauty is so great that no man can fail to be entranced by it.* This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images carefully selected by our team of professional editors.

* Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings and delightful sketches from early editions, She is one of the greatest adventure tales of all time. 'She' has sold many millions of copies since its publication well over a hundred years ago. The fantastic story follows the fortunes of three Englishmen who venture to Africa in search of a mystical treasure. Along the way they enter lands ruled by a fearsome white queen known as 'She Who Must Be Obeyed' whose beauty is so great that no man can fail to be entranced by it.* This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images carefully selected by our team of professional editors.

H. Rider Haggard’s “She” was wildly popular when first published in England in 1887. The novel follows Leo Vancey and Horace Holly on an expedition to Africa as they encounter many serious and dangerous trials, including shipwreck, sickness, and hostile natives, before discovering a legendary lost city in a system of underground caverns. It is here that they meet Ayesha, or She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a white queen who is wise, beautiful, terrible in her love, and two thousand years old. Ayesha is a mythological monstrous and all-powerful female, as mysterious and frightening as she is desirable, and absolutely lethal. “She” is both of the imagination and immediately real, for her magical walk through a pillar of fire has rendered her immortal, yet she lives on interminably to wait for the reincarnation of her love Kallikrates. When Ayesha becomes certain that Leo is her reincarnated love, he and his friend must decide if the goal of their quest is worth risking their lives. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

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. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

She, subtitled A History of Adventure, is a novel by the English writer H. Rider Haggard, published in book form in 1887 following serialisation in The Graphic magazine between October 1886 and January 1887. She was extraordinarily popular upon its release and has never been out of print.The story is a first-person narrative which follows the journey of Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. They encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen named Ayesha who reigns as the all-powerful "She" or "She-who-must-be-obeyed". Haggard developed many of the conventions of the lost world genre which countless authors have emulated.Haggard was "part of the literary reaction against domestic realism that has been called a romance revival." Other writers following this trend were Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, and William Morris. Haggard was inspired by his experiences living in South Africa for seven years (1875-1882) working at the highest levels of the British colonial administration. Like many of his works, She is a vivid example of what is now labeled, usually with censure, "imperialist literature". As such, the story embraces concepts of race and evolution, especially notions of degeneration, racial decline and racial purity, prominent in the late Victorian period and at the turn of the century—ideas whose influence would shape the 20th century. In nineteenth-century England, works by Haggard and others—such as G.A. Henty—were devoured by a voracious audience that included children. In the figure of She, the novel notably explored themes of female authority and feminine behaviour. Its representation of womanhood has received both praise and criticism.

'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 ofWestern mythology, a female who is both monstrous and desirable - and, without question, deadlier than the male.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.