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.
Lewis and J.
Tolkien; in her Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic--which includes period illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and Charles H.
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.
