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Author Haggard's Book Reviews

Ayesha: The Return of She
Professor Holly and Leo set out to look for the magical queen, Ayesha, who they last encountered 20 years ago and go through many adventures and dangers to find her, upon which Ayesha and Leo are united in love until his tragic death. This is the sequel to the Victorian fantasy novel She. It is set decades after the original novel. The protagonist Professor Holly has just died, but his lawyer receives his last memoirs, which are set twenty years after th...
She
Professor Holly and his ward Leo follow the clues on a fragment of ancient pottery to discover a magical lost kingdom in deepest Africa, where a magical queen has waited for thousands of years to meet Leo and fulfill her romantic destiny. This is a great work of Victorian fantasy, and doesn't get enough attention nowadays. Professor Holly, a linguistics professor at Cambridge, is named the guardian of his dying friend's small son, Leo, and given a locked...
She and Allan
South African outdoorsman Allan finds himself in the magical kingdom of Kor in Libya after a spiritual struggle leads him there, and in order to get the answers he seeks, he must first help out his friends, and do a service for Queen Ayesha, by leading her army to battle against her rival. The third novel in the four-part Ayesha series sees a return of She, the white queen of Kor, and introduces Allan, a new protagonist (though he does appear in other Ha...
Wisdom's Daughter
This is the story of Ayesha, set down in Professor Holly's words, in which an immortal magical queen talks about the history of her life, leading up to the events in the Ayesha series of books. This fourth and final novel in the Ayesha series gives the reader a chance to finally delve a little bit into the mind and memories of Queen Ayesha of Kor, a woman who as at times appeared crazy, scary, awesome and tragic in the previous three novels. Wisdom's Dau...