num_pages: 338
description: 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.”She was first serialised in Graphic magazine from October 1886 to January 1887.
language: English
title: She
titlecomplete: She (Ayesha, #1)
characters: Ayesha, Ludwig Horace Holly, Leo Vincey
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Africa, Victorian
ratings_count: 12759
places: Kor, Africa
series: Allan Quatermain, Ayesha, and Umslopogaas, Ayesha 
publisher: Modern Library