She
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Fantasy
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Deep in an unmapped corner of Africa, beyond swamps and desert and a lost civilization's ruins, rules a veiled queen who has waited two thousand years for her dead lover to be reborn. When Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey follow an ancient family relic into her kingdom, Leo finds himself the object of her terrible, ageless devotion. Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed, commands fire and death with a glance, and offers Leo a gift no mortal has ever been given: immortality, at a price neither of them can yet imagine. Haggard's most famous novel remains one of the great romances of the fantastic.
Last updated August 4, 2026 · Public Domain
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Table of Contents
1
Chapter One: My Visitor
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Chapter Two: The Years Roll By
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Chapter Three: The Sherd of Amenartas
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Chapter Four: The Squall
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Chapter Five: The Head of the Ethiopian
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Chapter Six: An Early Christian Ceremony
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Chapter Seven: Ustane Sings
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Chapter Eight: The Feast, and After!
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Chapter Nine: A Little Foot
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Chapter Ten: Speculations
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Chapter Eleven: The Plain of Kôr
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Chapter Twelve: “She”
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Chapter Thirteen: Ayesha Unveils
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Chapter Fourteen: A Soul in Hell
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Chapter Fifteen: Ayesha Gives Judgment
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Chapter Sixteen: The Tombs of Kôr
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Chapter Seventeen: The Balance Turns
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Chapter Eighteen: “Go, Woman!”
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Chapter Nineteen: “Give Me a Black Goat!”
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Chapter Twenty: Triumph
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Chapter Twenty-One: The Dead and Living Meet
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Chapter Twenty-Two: Job Has a Presentiment
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Chapter Twenty-Three: The Temple of Truth
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Chapter Twenty-Four: Walking the Plank
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Chapter Twenty-Five: The Spirit of Life
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Chapter Twenty-Six: What We Saw
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Chapter Twenty-Seven: We Leap
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Chapter Twenty-Eight: Over the Mountain
