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Title: Ayesha : The Return of "She" by H. Rider Haggard ISBN: 0-486-23649-8 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific!
Comment: Second in the trilogy of "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed". Still terrific, still imaginative and thrilling. How does Haggard do it? The scenes and images he conjures up. The cliff-hanging(literally), Perils of Pauline adventures just fascinate. And yet again, the battle between the spirit and flesh, the mortality and divinity, of man. In this one, however, it began to slow about two-thirds of the way thru, as if Haggard were stretching at times. But then he roused himself magnificently to a thrilling finish! The scene of Ayesha and her army riding across the plain to save Leo is the stuff of movies. It is no less a book than the first, which is unusual for sequels. This one takes place in Tibet, rather than Libya, and Haggard foresees the importance of radium.
Rating: 4
Summary: Haggard: a real avant-garde story teller
Comment: Ayesha is a beautiful and imaginative masterpiece. The radical beauty of this book is not merely that it is a "good" or "bad" sequel of She, but that it is the work of an open-minded writer. The plot is full of super natural and pre "new age" exoticism as well that 19th century romanticism adventures. Its naiveté and simplicity make this book a very enjoyable one. The best moment of the book is a incredible obscure scene in which Ayesha has a meeting with her "servants", shadows and ghosts from beyond and the past. I recommend this book only to real admirers of this kind of pulp-literature and to eclictic readers.
Rating: 2
Summary: A failed sequel.
Comment: One would suppose that Haggard felt confident with writing sequels considering the success he had with KING SOLOMON'S MINES and ALLAN QUATERMAIN. Unfortunately, the sequel to SHE is sub-par. Having read only 4 books by Haggard, I could hardly consider myself an expert on his writing, but the one aspect of his writing which I found so intriguing and entertaining was his descriptions of Africa and of the racist imperialist views of the Europeans in Africa. However, in AYESHA, the story takes place somewhere near China or Thibet or Russia (the exact location is never given, but only alluded to). Haggard has stepped out of an area in which he was comfortable, knowledgable, and successful. Unfortunately, by stepping out of the area in which he found the most success, he has fallen down and offered up only a meager tale which has to fight to hold the reader's interest.
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Title: Three Adventure Novels: She, King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard ISBN: 0486206432 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1951 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: She (Oxford World's Classics) by H. Rider Haggard, Daniel Karlin ISBN: 0192835505 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: She and Allan by H. Rider Haggard, Rider Haggard H Rider Haggard ISBN: 1587154226 Publisher: Wildside Press Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Allan and the Holy Flower by H. Rider Haggard ISBN: 1587150220 Publisher: Wildside Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: She : A History of Adventure by Margaret Atwood, Charles H.M. Kerr, Maurice Greiffenhagen, H. Rider Haggard ISBN: 0375759050 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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