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Haggard, H Rider

 
9781782011330: She: A History of Adventure
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ISBN 10: 1782011331 ISBN 13: 9781782011330
Editorial: Evertype, 2016

Sinopsis

Rider Haggard wrote this novel in a few days shortly after his success with "King Solomon’s Mines", and in it he again uses his African experiences and his familiarity with old legends. But there is a greater and more frightening depth in this book. In the story the three men from Cambridge endure shipwreck, fever, and cannibals as they search for "She", the object and end of their adventure, bequeathed to them two thousand years previously. "She" is the incarnation of one of the most powerful and most ambiguous figures in Western consciousness: a woman who is at the same time a seductress and a figure of terror. "My empire is an empire of the imagination." Those words are spoken by Ayesha, the central figure of this book and the queen of a central African tribe. Her soubriquet "She-who-must-be-obeyed" alludes to her deathless beauty and her magical powers. But taken together those two utterances bear witness to the powerful hold the author, Henry Rider Haggard, has had on his readers over the years.

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Rider Haggard wrote this novel in a few days shortly after his success with "King Solomon's Mines", and in it he again uses his African experiences and his familiarity with old legends. But there is a greater and more frightening depth in this book. In the story the three men from Cambridge endure shipwreck, fever, and cannibals as they search for "She", the object and end of their adventure, bequeathed to them two thousand years previously. "She" is the incarnation of one of the most powerful and most ambiguous figures in Western consciousness: a woman who is at the same time a seductress and a figure of terror. "My empire is an empire of the imagination." Those words are spoken by Ayesha, the central figure of this book and the queen of a central African tribe. Her soubriquet "She-who-must-be-obeyed" alludes to her deathless beauty and her magical powers. But taken together those two utterances bear witness to the powerful hold the author, Henry Rider Haggard, has had on his readers over the years.

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Editorial
Evertype
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1782011331
ISBN 13 
9781782011330
Encuadernación
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Ilustrador
Greiffenhagen Maurice
Número de páginas
316
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780375759055: She: A History of Adventure (Modern Library Classics)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0375759050 ISBN 13:  9780375759055
Editorial: Random House Publishing Group, 2002
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