H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925)
Related: adventure novel - British literature - pulp fiction - exotica - Victorian era
She, 1965 Lancer Books, Ursula Andress movie cover
She : A History of Adventure (1887) - H. Rider Haggard
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard (June 22, 1856 – May 14, 1925), born in Bradenham, Norfolk, England, was a Victorian writer of adventure novels set in locations considered exotic by readers in his native England. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rider_Haggard [Nov 2005]She : A History of Adventure (1887) - H. Rider Haggard
She is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first serialized in The Graphic from October 1886 to January 1887. In reprints it was astoundingly popular in its day. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_%28novel%29 [Nov 2005]Related: adventure novel - British literature - pulp fiction - exotica - 1886 - 1887
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. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien; in her Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic—which includes period illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and Charles H. M. Kerr—Margaret Atwood asserts that the awe-inspiring Ayesha, “She-who-must-be-obeyed,” is “a permanent feature of the human imagination.”
She has been adapted to film many times, including a 1965 Hammer Horror version starring Ursula Andress as Ayesha and John Richardson as her reincarnated love, with Peter Cushing and Bernard Cribbins as other members of the expedition. --wikipedia, Jan 2004
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