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Anglický jazyk
The Annotated She
Autor: H. Rider Haggard
When it appeared in 1887, H. Rider Haggard's She caused a sensation andbecame one of the best-selling novels of the nineteenth century. The idea of apowerful woman endowed with immortal beauty and penetrating intellect ruling asavage people among the...
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When it appeared in 1887, H. Rider Haggard's She caused a sensation andbecame one of the best-selling novels of the nineteenth century. The idea of apowerful woman endowed with immortal beauty and penetrating intellect ruling asavage people among the ruins of a vanished civilization in the heart of Africacaptivated Victorian readers. Freud recommended the book to his patients. Jungequated its imaginative power with Dante's Inferno and Wagner's Ring. Continuing tofascinate later twentieth-century readers, the book has never been out of print andhas won new audiences through numerous film versions.
This is thefirst annotated edition of She. Locating the novel within the context oflate-Victorian fiction and British imperialism, Norman Etherington providesbiographical information regarding Haggard and elucidates references in the text ofthis archaeological romance.
- Vydavateľstvo: Indiana University Press
- Rok vydania: 1991
- Formát: Hardback
- Rozmer: 235 x 157 mm
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9780253320728
