Description: WISDOM'S DAUGHTER (The Life and Love Story of She-Who-Must-Be Obeyed), H. Rider Haggard, Stated 1st Edition, 1923 Hardcover book with no DJ. Book is cocked a bit. Binding tight. Gray cloth cover is worn around the corners, edges and spine. Top, bottom spine is torn. Spine is faded. Some fade marks on the front cover. A dent on front cover outer edge. Black imprinting on the front cover and spine is fading. Corners, spine bumped. Inside: Some pencil writing on the inside back cover and back end page. A bit more ink writing on the titles list page opposite the title page. The remainder of pages are clean but yellowed.5.25" x 7.5". 383 pages. Wisdom's Daughter is a fantasy novel by British writer H. Rider Haggard, published in 1923, by Hutchinson & Co in the UK and Doubleday, Page and Company in the US. It is the final published book in the Ayesha series but chronologically the first book in the series. A strange manuscript in an unknown language is found among the effects of the late Professor Horace Holly. Its translator discovers that while in Central Asia, Holly convinced the immortal Ayesha, also known as She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, to write her story - and this is the book they have found. Ayesha, born the daughter of a sheikh in the 4th century BCE, has no interest in the arranged marriage expected of her. She wants power and position of her own. Led by a vision to believe she is the daughter of Isis, she studies esoteric wisdom under the tutelage of the mystic Noot, but her beauty and intelligence make her a constant target in a world where women are still considered little better than possessions. To survive, she must rely on her wits (and perhaps a little divine intervention) in a series of daring escapes and desperate schemes, finding allies where she can. But as she climbs higher in the service of her goddess, a fateful meeting with the warrior-turned-priest Kallikrates leads her down a road even she would never have imagined.
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Signed: No
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co.
Modified Item: No
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1923
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Region: Africa
Author: H. Rider Haggard
Personalized: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Action, Adventure
Character Family: Ayesha
