She

A professor is entreated by a dying colleague to take custody of the colleague's five-year old son, raise him to adulthood, and at that time pass on a chest to him. The professor does so, and when the child reaches adulthood and the chest is revealed, it leads them on an adventure to Africa. There they encounter a young queen of a lost race who says she's over two thousand years old, with an equally startling claim about the young man. H. Rider Haggard invented the "lost world" genre of fiction with King Solomon's Mines, and he continued the theme, adding in a bit of romance, in She. Haggard wrote the book in six months "in a white heat," and handed the manuscript to his agent with the remark, "There is what I shall be remembered by." Haggard was right: with its setting in darkest Africa and a woman at its center described as the most beautiful in the world, She was a sensation at its release, has never been out of print, and has sold upwards of 100 million copies. Perfect for readers who crave epic adventures and timeless romance, this genre-defining masterpiece delivers both heart-pounding exploration and an unforgettable immortal heroine. Haggard's vivid storytelling and groundbreaking "lost world" concept will transport you to mysterious Africa where ancient secrets and eternal love collide in spectacular fashion. The source for this public-domain ebook is Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org). Ebooks from other sources often have typos, inconsistent spelling, missing accent marks, and missing punctuation. Ebooks from Standard Ebooks are proofread line by line against a scan of the original printed pages, then proofread again from cover to cover. They are also formatted and typeset following a professional-grade style manual, resulting in new editions supporting state-of-the-art ereader technology: automatic hyphenation, popup footnotes, complete and consistent metadata, high-resolution and scalable vector graphics, and ereader-compatible tables of contents. All of this makes the finished ebooks accurate, functional, and beautiful, a pleasure to read. (Waking Lion Press is not affiliated with or endorsed by Standard Ebooks.)