Résumé
Résumé de Ayesha, le Retour de She
À qui s’adresse-t-il ?
For readers who love Victorian and Edwardian adventure, lost worlds and romance with a touch of the supernatural, and anyone drawn to ancient mysteries, mountain quests and love that claims to outlast death.
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Ayesha, the Return of She is an adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard, published in 1905. It is the sequel to She, his tale of a queen who has lived for two thousand years in a lost city in Africa. Haggard wrote it after readers kept asking what became of her and of the men who loved her.
The story is told by Horace Holly, the older, plain-spoken Cambridge scholar. Years after the events of the first book, he and his young friend Leo Vincey set out on a hard search across Central Asia. They follow a promise and a dream that will not let them rest. You get a quest story full of mountains, strange rites and danger, and a tale about love that claims to outlast death. Let us begin with the world these two men are leaving behind.
Dans ce résumé
- 1Two men cannot forget a queenFree
- 2The road leads east into the mountains
- 3Love, rivalry and a fate already written
- 4What the story is about and how it is told
Point clé 1 sur 4
Two men cannot forget a queen
The novel picks up about twenty years after the end of She. Holly and Leo Vincey have returned to England, but neither man is at peace. What they saw in the hidden land of Kor has marked them both.
Holly is the narrator, and he is a cautious, self-mocking man who prefers books to wonders. Leo is younger and more driven. He believes that the woman they met in Kor, Ayesha, who is called She Who Must Be Obeyed, has not gone from the world for good. She had promised that she would return.
That promise is the engine of the whole book. Haggard sets up a pair of friends who feel pulled by something they cannot argue away. Holly follows Leo more out of loyalty than belief. So the story begins as a matter of faith against doubt, and the two men carry that tension with them as they leave home.
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Questions about Ayesha, le Retour de She
What is Ayesha, the Return of She about?
It is a sequel to She. Horace Holly and Leo Vincey travel into Central Asia searching for Ayesha, the queen they met years before, and face danger, rival rulers and tests of love and belief.
Do I need to read She before Ayesha?
It is best to read She first. Ayesha builds directly on that story, its characters and the promise made in it, so the sequel is richer if you already know them.
Who is Ayesha in the book?
Ayesha is the immortal queen from She, also called She Who Must Be Obeyed. She is powerful, clever and feared, and she is bound by love to Leo Vincey.
When was Ayesha, the Return of She written?
H. Rider Haggard published it in 1905. It is a work of fiction, written as a sequel to She, which had appeared in the 1880s.
Is Ayesha, the Return of She worth reading?
It suits readers who enjoy classic adventure, lost worlds and romance. The quest and the central love story hold interest.