She (Annotated)

First published in 1887, Henry Rider Haggard's She is a seminal imperial romance that follows Horace Holly and Leo Vincey into the African interior, where they encounter the mysterious, immortal queen Ayesha, "She-who-must-be-obeyed." Blending adventure narrative, Gothic atmosphere, archaeological fantasy, and fin-de-siècle anxieties about gender, empire, race, and degeneration, the novel helped d...