The Ayesha Series by H. Rider Haggard (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains three works of the SHE (or AYESHA) series by H. Rider Haggard: SHE, AYESHA: THE RETURN OF SHE, and SHE AND ALLAN.

The books follow the adventures of an expedition to an unexplored part of East Africa, where the group finds Ayesha, a beautiful and immortal sorceress who claims the expedition's leader is the reincarnation of her long-dead beloved. Ayesha had become ageless and perfectly beautiful more than 2 millennia earlier by immersing herself in a magic flame, and pressures the expedition leader to immerse himself as well.

Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set predominantly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. Haggard is most famous as the author of the novels KING SOLOMON'S MINES and its sequel ALLAN QUATERMAIN, and SHE and its sequel AYESHA, swashbuckling adventure novels set in the context of late 19th century Africa. Hugely popular KING SOLOMON'S MINES is one of the best-selling adventure books of all time.

This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.