She and Allan
core novel 1921 The Ayesha Series
Record
| First published | 1921 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.64 (878 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345274496 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
She and Allan brings H. Rider Haggard's two most famous characters together for the first time, as the hunter and adventurer Allan Quatermain sets out for the lost city ruled by the immortal sorceress Ayesha, already familiar to readers from the earlier Ayesha novels. Quatermain undertakes the expedition in the hope that Ayesha's supernatural powers can help him make contact with the spirit of a woman he lost, drawing him deep into unfamiliar and dangerous territory controlled by her people. The novel is set earlier in Ayesha's history than the original She, giving Quatermain's famously skeptical, practical narration a chance to test itself directly against the immortal queen's uncanny authority and the perils of the hidden realm she rules, as the series' two separate adventuring traditions intersect for the first time.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Ayesha Series
- Series: The Ayesha Series core; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
Notes
- From the series record (The Ayesha Series): Four novels published 1887-1923, following the immortal sorceress Ayesha; internal chronology differs from publication order.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Ayesha Series: position 3 of 4: previous Ayesha, the Return of She (1905) · next Wisdom's Daughter (1923)
- Internal chronology, within The Ayesha Series: position 2 of 4: previous She (1887) · next Wisdom's Daughter (1923)
Sources
← The Ayesha Series dossier · All universes
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