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A review by grayjay
She by H. Rider Haggard
2.0
She is a Victorian adventure romance that greatly influenced the development of the fantasy genre and is a progenitor of the "lost world" and "lost race" sub-genres.
It explores themes of gender and power and uses fantastical elements such as the secret to immortality, rebirth, and past lives.
Unfortunately, readers will be faced with some troubling influences from Victorian thinking such as racial decline and purity, some racist physical descriptions, and a racist, colonialist worldview.
It explores themes of gender and power and uses fantastical elements such as the secret to immortality, rebirth, and past lives.
Unfortunately, readers will be faced with some troubling influences from Victorian thinking such as racial decline and purity, some racist physical descriptions, and a racist, colonialist worldview.