She - Hardcover

Haggard, Sir H Rider; H Rider Haggard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1421844591 ISBN 13: 9781421844596

Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007

Synopsis

There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seems to be graven on the memory in such fashion that we cannot forget it, and so it is with the scene that I am about to describe. It rises as clearly before my mind at this moment as thought it had happened but yesterday. It was in this very month something over twenty years ago that I, Ludwig Horace Holly, was sitting one night in my rooms at Cambridge, grinding away at some mathematical work, I forget what. I was to go up for my fellowship within a week, and was expected by my tutor and my college generally to distinguish myself. At last, wearied out, I flung my book down, and, going to the mantelpiece, took down a pipe and filled it. There was a candle burning on the mantelpiece, and a long, narrow glass at the back of it; and as I was in the act of lighting the pipe I caught sight of my own countenance in the glass, and paused to reflect. The lighted match burnt away till it scorched my fingers, forcing me to drop it; but still I stood and stared at myself in the glass, and reflected.

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"A strange book . . . full of hidden meaning." --Sigmund Freud

A strange book . . . full of hidden meaning. Sigmund Freud"

A strange book . . . full of hidden meaning. Sigmund Freud"

"A strange book . . . full of hidden meaning." --Sigmund Freud

About the Author

H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) worked in South Africa during the time of Britian's war with the Zulus and the First Boer War. He turned these experiences into fiction on his return to England and achieved popular and critical acclaim with KING SOLOMON'S MINES (1885), ALLAN QUATERMAIN (1887) and SHE (1887).

Patrick Brantlinger is Professor of English at Indiana University, Illinois. He has published work on British literature and imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Edition details

• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1421844591
• ISBN 13: 9781421844596
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: 1stworld Library