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It was but a little while afterwards that once more we heard the baying of the death-hounds. Yes, they were heading straight for us, this time across country. Again the white horse and its rider appeared, utterly exhausted, both of them, for the poor beast could scarcely struggle on to the towing-path. As it gained it a great red hound with a black ear gripped its flank, and at the touch of the fangs it screamed aloud in terror as only a horse can. The rider sprang from its back, and, to our horror, ran to the river's edge, thinking evidently to take refuge in our boat. But before ever he reached the water the devilish brutes were upon him. ... Read more

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Super Reader
Leo has left, and Ayesha, he thinks, is dead. Do immortal antiheros with superpowers stay dead? Only sometimes, would be the answer to that question. This is most definitely not one of those times.

Leo is a pretty hot guy, it seems, as the Queen of Kaloon falls for him, and he is in danger of yet another woman scorned. He now, of course, only wants Ayesha. Mortal types, in the end, can't handle the heat.

very poor edition
This review is not for the story, but the printing of this edition is terrible.There are an incredible amount of spelling an punctuation errors that really detract from the book.

Great Book - Poor Print Quality
H. Rider Haggard wrote amazing books that are still as deeply compelling today as they were when they were written in the 1900's."She" and "The Return of She" are two of my favorites.Unfortunately, this publisher does not do justice to this great book. The print quality is extremely poor, particularly ruining the wonderful illustrations by Maurice Greiggenhagen.Anyone interested in this book should order a version by another publisher.

Terrific!
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.

Haggard: a real avant-garde story teller
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. ... Read more

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Ayesha is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city deep in a maze of African caverns. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. Like A. Conan Doyle's Lost World, She is one of those magnificent Victorian yarns about an expedition to a far-off locale shadowed by magic, mystery, and death.

Tim Stout writes, in Horror: 100 Best Books, "As the plottakes hold one has the fancy that [Ayesha] had always existed, insome dark dimension of the imagination, and that [H. Rider] Haggardwas the fortunate author to whom she chose to reveal herself." Haggard did, in fact, write this book in a six-week burst of feverishinspiration: "It came faster than my poor aching hand could set itdown," he later said.

This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay byliterary critic Regina Barreca, who likens Ayesha to Flaubert'sMadame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina--"literally fantastic femalefigures who must be stopped before they love again." Book Description
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In what may be the greatest pulp fantasy adventure ever written, She is Ayesha --She-Who-Must-Be-Obyed, ruler of a lost city deep in Africa caverns: beautiful, wise and voracious.A wonderful page-turner of death and desire, magic and mystery. ... Read more

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Quite a story!
This is quite an adventure story, well worth reading.I first read this one when I was in the sixth grade, and after re-reading it at age 53 I still liked it.That is not always true when one visits the books one liked as a lad.

This is the story of three Englishmen who, following the dictates of the family legend of one of them, set out to Central Africa to find the lost land of Imperial Kor.What they find is an isolated tribe ruled by an immortal, supernaturally beautiful woman.More would be telling, but this is a good yarn that most readers will enjoy.

Haggard's writing style is a product of his time, and is somewhat dense and archaic by modern standards, but is not bad for all that.He has some of the dialog in the novel use Old English phraseology which was archaic even in his day, and it made some of the novel somewhat hard to read, at least for me.But these are minor quibbles; this is a fine novel that will hold the interest of most readers.

Beautiful and Terrifying - an Ending to Remember!
H. Rider Haggard is probably best-known for his "King Solomon's Mines" and his great hero, Allan Quatermain. "She" follows a similar tack to that of "Mines" - a Victorian tale of "darkest Africa" involving an ancient civilization. But "She" is not merely a great adventure story - it is also a darkly intriguing romance and a firghtening horror tale as well.

In "She," a brutish-looking individual - a scholar by trade - is mysteriously given charge of the only son of his good friend, who soon dies, leaving detailed instructions for the boy's schooling and strange artifacts to eb revealed to the boy when he comes of age. When the boy reaches maturity, the two pour over his inheritance, and discover that they must travel deep into Africa to discover his destiny. Upon arriving, and taking a harrowing journey down a jungle river, they arrive in the last vestiges of a great and ancient civilization that existed long before the Egyptians - a civilization morbidly fascinated with death and immortality. Ruling this crumbling world is Ayesha (pronounced As-sha), "She Who Must Be Obeyed," a betwitching, otherworldly, imperious beauty thousands of years old. She at once appreciates the scholar's great intellect, but finds herself drawn to his ward, who she believes is her long-lost lover, dead these long millennia. However, Ayesha's plans to make the young heir her king set in motion a chain of events leading to one of the most terrifying climaxes in the history of English literature.

"She" is a fascinating read and, truly, the final chapters literally kept my hair on end and sent a shiver down my spine. Haggard is adept at scintilating description and creates an atmosphere of anxious, doomed darkness over the entire thing - from the first, we know that thi story cannot end well, and Haggard never fails to ratchet up the stark gloom of the work. Ayesha is a perfectly drawn character - a woman who rules cruelly, a goddess without care for the mortals who serve her. Her power is absolute, and yet there is a theatrical vulnerability about her that makes her one of the most captivatign characters you'll read of. Certainly, this book is not without its faults - the first chapter or two are actually quite difficult to get through, dealing, as they do with some very abstruse exposition. However, once you're over that hurdle, you'll have a great adventure story you simply won't be able to put down. Enjoy!

One of the best book ever written!!
Once you start reading this book, you will realize that you are all lost and craving for woman like SHE. Story is amazing. I think Rider Haggard will always be remembered for this book than his Alan Quatermain novels. When I completed reading this book, my heart was heavy. Then I made a mistake of reading the next part which was such a let down!!

Super Reader
She is an immortal super powered ruler with a touch of the Doctor Doom complex about her. Old enough to predate the calendar, she presides over an underground civilisation and lost city.

A conflict develops between her and the on of a man she has encountered in the past. When She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed is not, she gets a tad on the grumpy side.

good book that seems 'familiar' at every turn
She is the story of an ancient woman who spends over 2 milenia waiting for her love, whom she killed because he turned her down, return to her in the heart of an African Jungle.the story is well written and the reader will find many aspects 'familiar' because so many modern movies and stories draw from this one.Ayesha is an ancient and powerful creature who rules a secluded group of 'savages' through power and fear.Ancient civilization, religion, 'savage' tribes and academia are all weaved together in this tale that spans thousands of years into the past, and possible the future.The seemingly controvesial topics are all discussed in a way that makes the reader think, but does not offend.
Any fan of adventures will like this book. ... Read more

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She gets what she wants... but what does she want?
Rider Haggard's Cleopatra tells the story of the legendary queen as shown through the eyes of Harmachis, an Egyptian physician and priest of Isis.It is written from the point of view of Harmacis at the end of his life.He is old and recounts his life story.Like so many others he was obsessed with the beautiful Cleopatra, and so he tells her story as much as his.

Unlike most admirers, Harmachis actually gets involved with Cleopatra.She pushes him to reveal secrets of Isis (including the location of hidden treasures of the pyramids) to further her political ends.Throughout the story, the reader is left wondering whether Cleopatra really does love Harmachis.Sometimes she seems only to use him and she does betray him every time.But one has to consider that Harmachis comes from low class parents, so actually ending up with him might not be an option for her.She seems to really love him and maybe she really is trying to arrange things for them.Her power over him is complete, possibly because she doesn't know what she wants.

The setting and story are lavish.After all, this is ancient Egypt, complete with hidden treasures of Isis. At the same time the story is about more timeless issues - love and betrayal and love vs religion.It has the right blend of action, emotion and awesome settings to keep me interested all the way through.And the ancient setting keeps Cleopatra from feeling dated, as do some of Haggard's other novels.

I highly recommend Cleopatra to anyone into 1890's stuff, Egyptian stuff or adventure novels.I have no idea why indypublish is charging almost 100 dollars for this book.It is in public domain now, so what's the deal?Anyway this seems to be where they used copies are and its definitely worth 10 dollars.I read it about 8 years ago and I still remember it clearly and go wow. ... Read more

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Make place, my father, said Gudruda, "for Eric bleeds." And she loosed the kerchief from her neck and bound it about his wounded brow, and, taking the rich cloak from her body, threw it on his shoulders, and no man said her nay. ... Read more

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Tolkien liked it!
See the anecdote, recorded in Douglas Anderson's TALES BEFORE TOLKIEN, that states that Tolkien praised this.

A wonderful viking adventure!
The author of numerous romance-adventures in the 19th century tradition,Haggard turned his hand, at least once, to the older saga tradition of thenorthern peoples. The result may well have been his best work. Skillfullycrafted, this tale proceeds at breakneck pace to unfold the saga-likeadventures of the stout Icelandic yeoman, Eric Thorgrimurs' son (surnamed'Brighteyes' for his most notable trait), as he struggles to win the handof his beloved, Gudruda the Fair, despite the vigorous opposition of herhalf-sister, Swanhild the Fatherless (who seeks Eric for her own). Caughtbetween these two beautiful women and faced with the need to overcome theopposition of Gudruda's father, Asmund the Priest (not the Christian sort)and his son, the greedy Bjorn (who would prefer to marry his sister off toa wealthy chieftain in lieu of a liaison with the farmer's son Eric), ourhero must prove himself worthy of his destined bride while dodging thesnares of those who would unman him. Conspiring with her mysterious mother,Groa the witchwife, Swanhild arranges to have Ospakar Blacktooth, anorthern chieftain from Swinefells, pay Asmund's household a visit in orderto see and woo Gudruda for himself. This Ospakar and Eric become immediatefoes for Ospakar is as ugly and vile as Eric is handsome and honorable. Andthe tale only accelerates from here. From death-defying feats of derring-doto duels between deadly foemen to treachery and mayhem in blindingblizzards and on the high seas, this is an adventure which, once havinggrabbed you, will not let you go. Written in an archaic prose, mirroringthe old nineteenth century translations of the original Icelandic sagas,and intended to simulate the voice of the old sagas themselves, the powerof this narrative is compelling and unrelenting. And yet it is lessexhausting than exhilirating as it unfolds the tale of Eric and the twowomen who loved him -- no matter what the cost. If the tale has a flaw atall it is that the characters are not real in any sense of that word butonly larger-than-life actors who strut about upon the stage which Haggardhas drawn for us here. At the same time the sensibility offered is one ofpure and unmitigated adventure. But it's great fun and marvelous escapistfare. A must for lovers of Norse and viking times.

SWM
The King of Vinland's Saga

Rousing derring-do and romance in Icelandic Saga style
A must for all Haggard fans, "Eric Brighteyes" is strongly recommended to anyone who enjoys a great tale of heroic endeavour. Perhaps the fastest-paced of all Haggard's many novels, it races from one highspotto another with manly verve and vivid scene-setting. The stalwart Eric andhis "thrall" Skallagrim fight back to back against a horde offoes, while two beautiful women vie for Eric's love.The eerie battle atsea isan exciting read in itself, to say nothing of all the rest. Eric isone of the most virile of Haggard's heroes and, like so many of them, issusceptible to earthly temptations and ambitions---unlike Haggard's toooften impossibly spiritual females. The reader familiar with Haggard'sfavourite "archetypes"will recognize in Eric, Skallagrim,Gudruda the Fair, and the wicked Swanhilde the traits of a cast ofcharacters immortalized under other names, in other times and places, inother titles of his famous canon."Eric Brighteyes" is alsodistinguished by an interesting author's preface that furnishes someinsight intoHaggard's imaginative overlay of "high romance" andoccult themes on what, in a writer of less lively invention, might havebeen just a simple adventure story.Both heroes and villains come onstrong with splendid confrontational dialogue before coming to blows. Afeast for escapists of all ages! Long may it remain in print.

A magnificent melding of saga and old style "romance".
The author of numerous romance-adventures in the 19th century tradition, Haggard turned his hand, at least once, to the older saga tradition of the northern peoples. The result may well have been his best work. Skillfully crafted, this tale proceeds at breakneck pace to unfold the saga-like adventures of the stout Icelandic yeoman, Eric Thorgrimurs' son (surnamed "Brighteyes" for his most notable trait), as he struggles to win the hand of his beloved, Gudruda the Fair, despite the vigorous opposition of her half-sister, Swanhild the Fatherless (who seeks Eric for her own). Caught between these two beautiful women and faced with the need to overcome the opposition of Gudruda's father, Asmund the Priest (not the Christian sort) and his son, the greedy Bjorn (who would prefer to marry his sister off to a wealthy chieftain in lieu of a liaison with the farmer's son Eric), our hero must prove himself worthy of his destined bride while dodging the snares of those who would unman him. Conspiring with her mysterious mother, Groa the witchwife, Swanhild arranges to have Ospakar Blacktooth, a northern chieftain from Swinefells, pay Asmund's household a visit in order to see and woo Gudruda for himself. This Ospakar and Eric become immediate foes for Ospakar is as ugly and vile as Eric is handsome and honorable. In an intial conflict between them, Eric outwrestles Ospakar, winning his magic sword from him, despite the evil workings of Groa to bring about Eric's defeat. In this manner, Eric at last wins over the reluctant Asmund, who now promises him his daughter. But in the process Eric incurs the jealousy of Bjorn who resents his successes as much as he does the possibility that this bright but impoverished hero will win his sister's hand. The lost sword proves a sore point for Ospakar as well who tries to regain it via a dastardly ambush, but Eric and his new found companion, Skallagrim Lambstail, a former berserker and thief who has himself been the victim of Ospakar's ill-doings, overcome the larger force arrayed against them, wounding Ospakar and killing some others to boot. As a result, Eric must go into exile as an outlaw for three years, after which he is to be free to return and marry Gudruda. But Swanhild, in a pique at how things have turned out, contrives to kill Gudruda. Discovered in this perfidy, she is married off against her will to a visiting Orkney Earl, Atli the Good, who is well on in years and sent off with him to the Orkneys. Eric again reveals his warlike talents in another ambush by Ospakar's minions, this time at sea, but is finally taken captive with Skallagrim due to the dastardliness of Eric's own first mate. Yet Eric is able to free himself when warned of the impending treachery of his captors by the sorcerous intervention of Swanhild who has continued to monitor his progress from her unhappy abode in Atli's hall. Eric goes on to a distinguished career in the service of the English King Edmund but refuses all of that king's urgings to remain with him at the royal court once his three year outlawry is up. Turning his back on the royal largesse (including a lovely royal bride), Eric takes ship to Iceland on a road which must take them past the Orkney Islands. Now Swanhild the witchwife of Atli, perceiving Eric's return raises a storm to overthrow his ship, beaching him on the very island where Atli has his hall. Atli is delighted at the arrival of such a heroic guest but Swanhild contrives to have Eric to herself while Atli and his men are away and she soon tempts and seduces this paragon among vikings, using a love draught of her own concoction. In the end, Eric is distraught to realize that he has betrayed his beloved Gudruda and flees from Swanhild's embrace -- but too late, for she has betrayed him to Atli in revenge for his desertion of her. And she has taken a clipping of Eric's fine golden hair to send to her half-sister, together with a token that only Eric could have had. Gudruda, on receiving this and on hearing the lying tale Swanhild has concocted to go with it, angrily vows to break her engagement to Eric and agrees to wed Ospakar instead. Eric thereafter arrives in Iceland, a scorned man (for having betrayed and finally killed Atli his host in the aftermath of his indiscretion with Swanhild) only to learn of Gudruda's plans to wed Ospakar. He makes his way to Asmund's hall (though that viking worthy has also now passed on to his reward) on the eve of the much heralded wedding and, in a fierce confrontation, reveals the truth of their betrayal to Gudruda. The result is more bloodshed including the death of the miscreant groom Ospakar and of Bjorn Asmundsson. But Swanhild is also present and with Ospakar's son Gizur she contrives to deny Eric and Gudruda their final happiness, even now. Gudruda dreams a dream of Odin the All-Father and in it he grants her one night of pleasure with her beloved before taking this hero for his own. Thereafter and with the momentary cessation of the killing, Eric and Gudruda wed. But in the morning they are attacked while still asleep, for Swanhild secretly guides Gizur into their bedchamber and directs his hand to the killing of Eric. But it is to Gudruda's fair head she guides the sword which Gizur holds and not to Eric's so that when Eric wakes he finds his beloved dead in his arms. Beside himself with grief, Eric buries his new bride and now Gizur leads his followers and the men whom Swanhild has brought with her from the Orkneys against Eric and Skallagrim. To make their final stand, these two flee together to the nearby heights. And there they turn to face their foes in a bloody scene worthy of the gotterdammerung itself. Here Eric and Skallagrim cut down their enemies in one last orgy of killing and vengeful recriminations and, in his own last dying moments, Eric seizes Gizur and plunges with him over the cliff to their common doom. In the end only Swanhild is left to supervise the funeral arrangements on board the viking ship she has selected for this purpose and to sing the death song, as she and the bodies of Eric and his faithful servant Skallagrim burn on a pyre of those men they have slain between them. Haggard wrote his tale with the romanticist's flair, making an artist's use of Shakespeare's English to evoke the antique flavor of these events, and giving full rein to his love for the occult -- though such rein is rarely encountered in the real sagas themselves. Nor are the sagas usually so tightly drawn as this, while they are frequently a great deal more realistic in their portrayal of people and the motives which drive them. If there is criticism to be levied here it's that the tale, itself, is much too pat and the characters, though sharply drawn, are not real folk in any normal sense of that word -- they are players only who never breathe the breath of real life, or even briefly fool us that they do, albeit they are larger than life actors with parts to play in a whopping good tale. By Stuart W. Mirsky (mirsky@ix.netcom.com). ... Read more

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All that day we explained and all the next--or rather my friend did, for I knew very little of the language --and they listened with great interest. At last the chief of the wizards and the first prophet to the king rose to question us. He was named Hokosa, a tall, thin man, with a spiritual face and terrible calm eyes. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. ... Read more

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Cuitlahua was crowned Emperor of the Aztecs in succession to his brother Montezuma, while I lay sick with the wound given me by the sword of de Garcia, and also with that which I had received on the altar of sacrifice. This hurt had found no time to heal. ... Read more

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An amazing story
Montezuma's Daughter is a story about love, adventure, war, hate, history and etc.I read this book when I was about 11 years old and I thought it was so amazing that I really would like to reread it again.The authoralso discribes the characters so clearly that you get an exact picture ofwho is it that you're reading about.I would recomend this book foreveryone because it also has lots of historical facts to it too.

One of the most interesting adventure stories I've ever read
Within the first hundred pages, the hero has gone to Spain to avenge his mother's murder, learned how to be a doctor, helped drug a girl about to be walled in a convent cellar, held prisoner on a slave ship, thrownoverboard, and is shipwrecked in Aztec Mexico.It gets better from there. And yet the hero is such a nice man: a novelty these days in adventurestories.

An excellent adventure book for younger readers
An adventure worthy of Dumas' inkwell. A wonderfully crafted story that should strike a cord with any adventure reader, especially one from 10 to 14. Good coverage of historical facts and environment of the time arranged around a timeless story of love and adventure. Give this book to your kids and they will forever be grateful.

A classic Haggard masterpiece
This is a remarkable story in the classic mould of H Rider Haggard's best works which can be enjoyed at many levels. As a straight adventure yarn it carries the reader on a historical roller-coaster ride through 16th CenturyEngland, Spain, and Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. RiderHaggard wrote Montezuma's Daughter immediately after the death of hisbeloved son, Jack. It was a blow from which he never recovered and the deepgrief and depression he suffered colours this tale of ancient mexico with adark despair which is not inappropriate to an account of the last days ofthe Aztec Empire. But this does not make Montezuma's Daughter a gloomybook. Far from it. Rider Haggard was a deeply (if unconventional) religiousman and his hopes and aspirations for mankind shine through the darkness toillumine the pages of this book with his wonderful spiritual philosophywhich is perhaps his greatest legacy to his readers. The closing chapterson the fall of the Aztec capital of Tenoctitlan under the relentlessassault of Cortez are profoundly moving. In short, Montezuma's Daughter isa most moving and well-written fictional history of the fall of Mexicointerwoven with a passionate love story and enough action to keep the mostjaded reader on the edge of their seat, whilst those who value the deeperaspects of Rider Haggard's narratives as much as the story-telling will notbe disappointed.

One of the best books
One of the best books I've ever read: love,travel, Spanish inquisition, war. ... Read more

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The Black One was angry, and despatched us to catch you and make an end of you. That is all. Come on now, quietly, and let us finish the matter. As the Doom Pool is near, your deaths will be easy." ... Read more