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Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plot takes hold one has the fancy that [Ayesha] had always existed, in some dark dimension of the imagination, and that [H. Rider] Haggard was the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverish inspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set it down," he later said.
This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by literary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic female figures who must be stopped before they love again."
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Light toning to page ends. DJ with some edge wear, small tears, faded spine and creasing. Owner signature to ffep. Seller Inventory # 9999-9994653356
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Greiffenhagen, Maurice; Kerr, Charles H. M. (illustrator). "With Thirty-two Illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and Charles H. M. Kerr". 1976 version with "Cover by Stanislaw Fernandes". May NOT match stock image. Cover has rubs, small bumped corners and spine edges, slight curl/crease to top edge, sticker taped to bottom of spine, tanning along edges and scuffs. 1" x 2" scrape where sticker removed on first page; also ink stamp at top corner first page. Otherwise pages are clean. Binding is slightly cocked. NOT bookclub - price on front flap; 8.25" tall, pages. Seller Inventory # 9954986
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Reprint Edition. She by H. Rider Haggard (First Thus) A firm, square copy. Light bumping to spine edges, and a previous owner's stamp on front paste down behind jacket flap. Major foxing present on top text block, and minor foxing present on side text block. A bright, multicolored pictorial jacket. Moderate foxing present on all sides and jacket flaps. Light dust rubbing, bumping, sunning, and rubbing present. Small section of top spine edge torn off. A First Thus illustrated edition of H. Rider Haggard's classic adventure tale. BOOK. Seller Inventory # HCX3753-1