Henry Rider Haggard

She (Annotated) Henry Rider Haggard

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) composed one of the most complex protagonists of the fantastic story, so profound that innumerable psychological analyzes and speculations have been woven about it. We are talking exactly about Ella (She), and a brief but really unmissable cycle. She: The History of Adventure (She: The History of Adventure) was published serially in The Graphic between October 1886 and January 1887. The novel is relatively little known in our language, but it is one of the books that Better and more intensely it has endured, with around 85 million copies sold. She tells the story of Horace Holly and Leo Vincey during a trip to the most inhospitable areas of Africa. There they find an unknown native tribe and its mysterious queen, Ayesha, who rules with authority over her subjects, mostly men. Her name, Ayesha, means something like She Who Must be Obeyed, that is, She who must be obeyed. In this sense, She is one of the first novels of the Lost World subgenre. Although the novel pursues clearly fantastic goals, the figure of Ayesha is subject to numerous conjectures. She is not an ordinary woman, not even a powerful woman, but something that lies in the mythical roots of women as a central element