She: A History of Adventure

Haggard, H. Rider

ISBN 10: 184379411X ISBN 13: 9781843794110

Publisher: Naxos Audio Books, 2010

Synopsis

Rider Haggard's novel about a supremely beautiful but vindictive African goddess by the name of She is one of the best-selling books of all time. This wonderful multi-layered novel is at once a disarming imaginative fantasy, a fast-paced adventure story and a fascinating examination of the themes of death, sexuality and power. Cambridge professor Horace Holly and his ward Leo undertake a journey to the underbelly of Africa and discover a lost kingdom inhabited by a savage clan. They narrowly escape death and Holly is taken to meet the supernatural Queen, 'She who must be obeyed' who turns out to be half human and half mirage a scintillating contradiction in terms. Lethal and yet irresistible, a youthful beauty and yet thousands of years old, all-powerful and yet, ultimately, fragile the phenomenon that is She has obtained iconic status in popular culture.

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About the Author

H. Rider Haggard, very much a product of the British Empire system, was a terrific writer of adventure fiction. From the 1880s he pioneered a category of lost world fiction that was continued by H. G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs. With King Solomon's Mines, The Ghost Kings and the Allan Quatermain novels he created a fascinating world of hidden magic, ancient curses and the terror of the unknown.

About the Author

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was a prolific English writer, who published colorful novels set in unknown regions and lost kingdoms of Africa, or some other corner of the world: Iceland, Constantinople, Mexico, Ancient Egypt. Haggard's best-known work is the romantic adventure tale KING SOLOMON'S MINES (1885), which was inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson' s famous Treasure Island.

Edition details

• Publisher: Naxos Audio Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184379411X
• ISBN 13: 9781843794110
• Binding: Audio CD
• Number of pages: 1