Ratings9
Average rating3.7
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Ratings9
Average rating3.7
On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father’s quest to find this remote race. To find out for himself if the story is true, Leo and his companions set sail for Zanzibar. There, he is brought face to face with Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed: dictator, femme fatale, tyrant and beauty. She has been waiting for centuries for the true descendant of Kallikrates, her murdered lover, to arrive, and arrive he does – in an unexpected form. Blending breathtaking adventure with a brooding sense of mystery and menace, She is a story of romance, exploration discovery and heroism that has lost none of its power to enthrall.
Series
4 primary booksAyesha is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 1887 with contributions by H. Rider Haggard.
Series
14 primary booksAllan Quatermain, Ayesha, and Umslopogaas is a 14-book series with 14 primary works first released in 19 with contributions by H. Rider Haggard.
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Real Victorian fiction, filled with long discursive speeches and obsessed with Death. A good adjective for this book is macabre.
Well... it's hard to rate. Because there is so much I dislike in this book. “Oh, an animal, KILL IT!!!” to “I'm a mighty Englishman me!” to “Jews are mean, moneyhungry wolves and deserve to be pogrommed” and all the rest of that stuff. The Leo/Ustane instalove. The constant telling that she's evil, while showing her as anything but evil. There was only once case where she was “evil”, and even that is totally understandable - which even Henry acknowledges in the book.
I suppose we are to pity poor Henry, being born in Victoria's England. What else could he have been?
The story itself is not bad.
She is amazing. I love her.
This is my 2nd classic book read for the month of Nov. (First being “And Then There Were None”! I have seen both movies of “SHE”, 1935 version with Randolph Scott and the 1965 version with Peter Cushing! I liked both movie version and the book version is just as good. It is a bit slow for the 1st 50 pages but once the expedition starts the suspense and thrills begin. This is a fantasy/adventure novel.
SHE, the main character has found the fountain of youth! I won't tell you anymore, Read the book or rent one of the movies, I think you will enjoy!! David N.
