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false <![CDATA[She]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177116097m/682681.jpg 682681 42 Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death. Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that [Ayesha] had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that [H. Rider] Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverish inspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down," he later said. This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic female figures who must be stopped before they love again." 2334644 book 1887 She total:690|5:132|4:243|3:226|2:66|1:23| 690 2465 1110 98 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Nov 14 03:18:10 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 03:19:23 -0800 2009
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OMG JK. I've seen this book mentioned as inspiration or background to a lot of other things I've read and enjoyed, something lurking in the history of sci-fi and adventure stories. So, here goes. Plus, if I ever want to get peopl...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1967 Sat Sep 13 10:39:03 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 10:39:03 -0700 2008 1
BTW, the phrase "she who must be obeyed" while popularized by "Rumple of the Old Bailey" (a BBC comedy series...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 19:26:10 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 20:57:34 -0800 2009
A group of English Gentleman adventurers travel into the the depths of unexplored Africa, where they enco...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 12:06:39 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 12:11:41 -0700 2009
I've had plenty of exposure to "lost civilizations in darkest Africa" ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Tue Jul 28 21:10:14 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 21:18:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 27 17:04:50 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 17:09:44 -0800 2009
What made this truly excellent was the editing and commentary in th...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Jul 09 20:00:59 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 20:07:44 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Sat Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Sat Oct 31 03:18:24 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 03:24:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Sun Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 17:47:46 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 15:10:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 20:51:03 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 16:22:27 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Aug 17 12:12:29 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 12:12:47 -0700 2008
Not only were there several typos in the copy I had (along with some agonizingly complicated sentences) but the misogyny that literally dripped from the pages was really hard to swallow - no matter how much I focused on its status as a piece typical of ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 05:51:19 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 17:06:06 -0700 2008 Funny thing...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1973 Sat Jul 05 06:12:59 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 05:36:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat May 17 13:36:21 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 21:29:50 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 13:36:21 -0700 2008
Okay, I finished it, and...hmmm. I think the author had something against women or at least had some very strong opinions about them.

The Queen in this story is a 2000 year old woman who is con...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 16:23:35 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 16:29:53 -0700 2008 She is one of those adventure novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that are often considered boys' books--novels like Tarzan, Treasure Island, War of the Worlds, and Haggard's own King Solomon's Mines, which have been read by generations of boys and influenced much of our popula...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 05:08:01 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 05:11:19 -0700 2009 1
I enjoyed this one, and especially realising where the phrase "She who must be obeyed" came from :) though it was strange just how many times the main character/narra...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 03:57:13 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 03:12:17 -0700 2008
When the heroes open up the ancient chest passed on from generation to generation Haggard includes pages of ancient script, and then the later translation of that summerian scribbli...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 26 14:25:01 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 14:30:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=682681