She: A History of Adventure (Modern Library Classics)

Haggard, H. Rider; Charles H.M. Kerr; Maurice Greiffenhagen; Margaret Atwood

ISBN 10: 0375759050 / ISBN 13: 9780375759055

Published by Modern Library, 2002

About this Item

Trade Paperback with only minor reading wear; book is clean, unmarked. In stock. Ships from MN, USA.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: She: A History of Adventure (Modern Library Classics)
• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375759050
• ISBN 13: 9780375759055
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction: Classics, 19th century and earlier

About this title

Synopsis

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.”

About the Author

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than twenty-five books, including works of fiction, poetry, and essays. Her most recent novel is The Blind Assassin. She lives in Toronto.