SheDrawing on his knowledge of Africa and of ancient legends, adventure writer H. Rider Haggard weaves this disturbing tale of Ayesha, the mysterious and immortal white queen of a Central African tribe. She, or "She-who-must-be-obeyed," is the embodiment of the mythological female figure who is both monstrous and desirable, and deadlier than the male. She is a pioneering work in the "Lost World" genre. |
Contents
My Visitor | 16 |
The Years Roll By | 24 |
The Sherd of Amenartas | 30 |
The Squall | 52 |
The Head of the Ethiopian | 60 |
SHE I | 68 |
An Early Christian Ceremony | 70 |
Ustane Sings | 81 |
The Tombs of Kôr | 162 |
The Balance Turns | 171 |
Go Woman | 182 |
Give Me a Black Goat | 192 |
Triumph | 200 |
The Dead and Living Meet | 210 |
Job has a Presentiment | 217 |
The Temple of Truth | 227 |
The Feast and After | 91 |
A Little Foot | 100 |
Speculations | 107 |
The Plain of Kôr | 116 |
She | 125 |
Ayesha Unveils | 135 |
A Soul in Hell | 146 |
Ayesha Gives Judgment | 154 |
Walking the Plank | 235 |
The Spirit of Life | 244 |
What We Saw | 255 |
We Leap | 263 |
Over the Mountain | 270 |
Explanatory Notes | 276 |
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