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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060326
Author:Michael Dirda

SHE

A History of Adventure

By H. Rider Haggard

Edited by Andrew M. Stauffer

Broadview. 359 pp. Paperback, $11.95

H. Rider Haggard's She (1887) has never been out of print in nearly 120 years. And for good reason: Its heroine haunts our imaginations as much as Helen of Troy, Faust, Frankenstein's monster or Dracula -- all of whom she occasionally resembles. From Wilkie Collins and J.M. Barrie to C.S. Lewis and Henry Miller, She has never lacked ardent admirers. Freud himself recommends Haggard's masterpiece in The Interpretation of Dreams, calling it "a strange book, and full of hidden ...

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