Books by H. Rider Haggard
“It’s a quick read. It’s an adventure romp. She: A History of Adventure is its title, and it’s a first person narrative that follows the journey of an academic and his ward, who isn’t quite as intelligent as he is – he’s good looking, but not smart. They journey to a lost kingdom in interior Africa that they accidentally discover, and there they encounter an unknown people who have a mysterious white queen named Ayesha. Ayesha is known to her people as She, which is short for ‘She Who Must Be Obeyed.’” Read more...
The Best Victorian Fantasy Novels
Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by H. Rider Haggard were recommended
The Best Victorian Fantasy Novels, recommended by Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson
Modern fantasy emerged out of the work of a group of Victorian writers, many of whom were medieval scholars and social justice activists. These three threads are intimately connected, explains literary scholar Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson. Here, she introduces us to the Victorian fantasy novels that shaped the work of 20th-century legends C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and the beliefs that infuse those stories.
