bookshelves: re-read, victorian, published-1887, play-dramatisation, african-continent, fraudio, historical-masturbation, fantasy, afr-car Read in November, 2009 A re-read via BBC R4 audio book dramatisation. I remember being taken to see the film where 'I Shall Undress' played Ayesha - She who ...
By all rights I probably should reread this before reviewing--I last read this in my teens. I think I'm a little afraid I might find She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed diminished in my esteem, and I'd hate that. I'd rather remember this not only as a rollicking good adventure to read, but above all Ayesha, the ...
H. Rider Haggard is one of those "classic" adventure writers I missed as a child while I was devouring Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar R. Burroughs. Then there were the Lost Worlds tales of that guy who dabbled in fantasy-adventure when he wasn't writing about a detective-doctor duo. Now that I have r...
An intriguing fantasy, lost world, adventure story although it does explore some important questions such as the importance of beauty and how much we are driven by ascetics.An interesting point of fact about this novel is it is in the first person POV, but not from that of the heroic, good looking p...
Thanks, Manny for reminding me that I'd read this as a child/teenager (I think about 3 times)? And absolutely adored it! (way back when, no idea how I'd find it now).Pygmalion, you can go eat dust in SHE's er... HER wake.She rules!..and I really want some of what She had...
A re-read via BBC R4 audio book dramatisation. I remember being taken to see the film where 'I Shall Undress' played Ayesha - She who must be obeyed.'Make sure he doesn't lose his marbles.'
I'd never read this classic of adventure-fantasy before. For some reason, I'd always assumed the the author was a contemporary of Robert E. Howard, and that it was published sometime in the 1930s or thereabouts. Not so! It was published in 1887!The story is fairly simple: An ugly, rather reclusive a...
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