She : a history of adventure /
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| Author / Creator: | Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925. |
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| Edition: | 2002 Modern Library pbk. ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Modern Library, 2002. |
| Description: | xxiv, 334 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Modern Library classics Modern Library classics. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4593517 |
| 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." |
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 334 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0375759050 |
