Fun facts about the life and work of Henry Rider Haggard, author of King Solomon’s Mines and She
1. He is the author of one of the biggest-selling books of all time.
H. Rider Haggard’s She (Oxford World’s Classics)
(1887) is reckoned to be one of the bestselling novels ever published: by 1965 it had sold some 83 million copies. Ayesha, the ‘she’ of the title, is a powerful and mysterious white queen who rules the African Amahagger people. Ayesha has magic powers and is immortal, making She a fantasy adventure novel, precursor to the fiction of Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and countless other writers of the twentieth century.
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