Sir H Rider Haggard

She Sir H Rider Haggard

"She" is one of the greatest classics of imaginative literature, and one of the most sold books around the word, making it one of the bestselling novel of all time. It has been published in 44 languages and sold almost 100 million copies [unreliable sources]. The author Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) created his own mythology, making this novel his most stunning and influential, only challenged by his novel King Salomon Mines per literary historian Andrew M. Stauffer. In this first person, narrative style we follow the journey of a young Cambridge University professor Horace Holly and Leo Vincey that has become his ward after his father's dead, they submerge in a lost kingdom in the mysterious African interior. There they come across a primitive race of natives were their enigmatic, beautiful, white queen named Ayesha who rules as the supreme and all-powerful "She", or "She-who-must-be-obeyed" but that has a mysterious connection with Holly young ward Leo Vince. "She" sightsee themes of female authority and feminine behavior which had gained the novel praise and criticism for its illustration of womanhood. In this work, Sir Henry Rider Haggard developed the conventions of the Lost World subgenre, which many later authors emulated. This classic novel is a must-have in any book collection.