She

by H. Rider Haggard
Category: "Fiction - Adventure"
Pages:238
Year of Publication:1887
Date Read:02/04/2001
Notes:Two Englishmen, Holly and Leo, set off into unexplored Africa in search of a white queen who killed the ancestor of one of them 2,000 years earlier. After a series of adventures, they discover the mysterious Ayesha — She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed — living in a cave and reigning over the natives with a heavy hand. She decides that Leo is her lover whom she murdered lifetimes ago. He is hesitant to return her love because he's married (a seemingly platonic match with a native girl he met a few days earlier). Ayesha removed Leo's hesitancy by murdering the girl. She convinces both men to go with her to the magic flame where she gained her immortality generations ago. We're sure by now you're aching to read the book yourself, so we'll say no more.
My Rating: 5

Reviews for She

Review - She

This book makes the weird list. It makes the claim that any man is reduced to a blubbering idiot in the presence of a beautiful woman, no matter how creepy she is in other ways. There are a lot of monologues by She, explaining how no male is able to resist her beauty. She drifts around "like a serpent" wrapped in white gauze that reveals her "form." (Remember, this was written in 1887.)

Reviewed by Roger on 2003-07-22 20:11:51

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