The sequel to She, this is quite a long read and i was expecting a lot of messing about before getting to the main plot this wasn't the case however, it jumped quite quickly into the action and there really isn't any wasted pages.
I love the characters, the hero comes across as kind of lame and its really nice to see the two powerful heroines fight over this weaker man as the reverse is so often the case.
I like the layers of characterization, everyone is flawed and both the heroines are quite evil in their way. The action is great but its really the mystery and the lies which surround Ayesha which makes this work so well. She gives numerous versions of her origin until you have no idea what the truth might be. Its a really solid adventure/mystery/romance. I was kind of surprised how much i liked it, especially how superior it seemed over the original. ( )

Digna continuación de la primera parte de esta serie, que reportaría al autor con toda justicia pingües beneficios. ( )

The concluding book in the adventures of Horace Holly and Leo Vancey first related in She, Ayesha was written almost two decades after that initial novel. And it shows. The story itself actually is more complex and even more epic in scope than She. Yet there are differences in the telling of the tale. In Ayesha, Haggard writes more briskly. It has the feel of a work that belongs to the new century, the twentieth. Gone, almost, are the dense layers of appositives that carried through on every page of She. But only almost. Because they do reappear with the long stretches of dialog involving Ayesha. For once more, Haggard wants his style to mimic the sense of past eras, the long passage of time. And once more, as in She, his syntax and rhythms are of a bygone era. Too, he again sprinkles in archaic word choices to plunge the reader into a sense of centuries past.

I do not hold much with those critics who can only see these works of Haggard as texts to explore colonial mindsets, tropes, and imagery. In both She and Ayesha, Haggard has gone beyond the borders of colonialism. He does this literally, exploring lost and unknown landscapes that are metaphorically probing heretofore untapped regions of the mind and belief. Ayesha is more than mere adventure, romance, or fantasy. It examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality and where the lives of readers themselves takes place. In his own way, often, Haggard can be quite profound. ( )

Indeholder kapitlerne "I. Indledning", "II. Lama-Klostret", "III. Bavnen", "IV. Bjergskredet", "V. Bræen", "VI. I Porten", "VII. Den første Prøve", "VIII. Døds-Hundene", "IX. Kaloons Hof", "X. I Shaman'ens Værelse", "XI. Jagten og Drabet", "XII. Sendebudet", "XIII. Under de skærmende Vinger", "XIV. Dødsretten", "XV. Den anden Prøve", "XVI. Forvandlingen", "XVII. Trolovelsen", "XVIII. Den tredie Prøve", "XIX. Leo og Leoparden", "XX. Ayesha's Guldmagerkunst", "XXI. Atenes Spaadom", "XXII. Kræfterne slippes løs", "XXIII. Ayeshas Eftergivenhed", "XXIV. Ayeshas Bortgang".

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AYESHA : EL REGRESO DE "ELLA" :
REVISTA LITERARIA :
NOVELAS Y CUENTOS

INTRODUCCIÓN

Rápido e imprevisto es como se presenta
lo inesperado. Si alguna persona había de
quien el firmante de este libro no se acordara
ni pensase saber más de ella, era
seguramente Leodovico Horacio Holly,
sencillamente, porque creía que éste había
muerto hacía varios años.

Cuando recibí la última carta de mister
Holly, muchísimos años antes, con el
manuscrito que la acompañaba y que no era
otro que la interesantísima narración de
"Ella", me anunciaba que él y su ahijado
Leo Vincey, el bienamado de la divina
Ayeshan partían para el Asia Central con la
esperanza, según creo, de que allí se les
volvería a apareer de nuvo, llena esta vez de
dulces promesas.

NOTA DEL AUTOR.-El autor desearia que este
libro fuese considerado como la conclusión de
una tragedia, imaginaria, si asi queremos...