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She
by H. Rider Haggard
Africa -- Fiction
She
Published: 2006
Language: en
Identifier: http://www.gutenberg.org/3155
Subjects: Africa -- Fiction; Fantasy fiction; Love stories; Adventure stories; Ayesha (Fictitious character : Haggard) -- Fiction; Immortalism -- Fiction; Reincarnation -- Fiction; Women -- Africa -- Fiction
A classic adventure fantasy in which Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey travel to a remote region of Africa after uncovering clues to an ancient mystery tied to Leo’s ancestry. There they encounter Ayesha, a powerful and beautiful queen believed to be immortal, whose love, ambition, and tragic past shape the fate of the travelers. Blending imperial adventure, lost-world romance, reincarnation, and supernatural themes, H. Rider Haggard’s novel introduced one of Victorian fiction’s most memorable female figures.
Source: Project Gutenberg
Text sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook #3155.
