品牌：H. Rider Haggard
基本信息
·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：368 页码
·出版日：2001年
·ISBN：0140437630
·条码：9780140437638
·版次：New Ed
·装帧：平装
·英语：英语
·丛书名：Penguin Classics
内容简介
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On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and of his father's quest to find this remote race. To find out for himself if the story is true, Leo and his companions set sail for Zanzibar. There, he is brought face to face with Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed: dictator, femme fatale, tyrant and beauty. She has been waiting for centuries for the true descendant of Kallikrates, her murdered lover, to arrive, and arrive he does in an unexpected form. Blending breathtaking adventure with a brooding sense of mystery and menace, She is a story of romance, exploration discovery and heroism that has lost none of its power to enthrall.
作者简介
Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) worked in South Africa during the time of Britain's war with the Zulus and the First Boer War. He turned those experiences into fiction on his return to England and achieved popular and critical acclaim withKing Solomon's Mines,Allan Quatermain, andShe.
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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'sLost World,Sheis one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death.Tim Stout writes, inHorror: 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."--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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