Publisher's Synopsis
Wisdom's Daughter: The Life and Love Story of She-Who-Must-be-Obeyed is a novel written by H. Rider Haggard. The story revolves around a young man named Leo Vincey, who sets out on a journey to find the truth about his family's past. Along the way, he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman named Ayesha, who claims to be immortal and possesses great wisdom and power. As Leo falls in love with her, he discovers the truth about her past and the dark secrets that she holds. The novel explores themes of love, immortality, power, and the search for truth. It is a thrilling and romantic tale that will captivate readers with its vivid descriptions, complex characters, and suspenseful plot twists.1923. What was the greatest fault of Ayesha, She-Who-Must-be-Obeyed? Surely a vanity so colossal that, to take one out of many examples, it persuaded her that her mother died after looking upon her, fearing lest, should she live, she might give birth to another child who was less fair. At least, as her story shows, it was vanity, rather than love of the beauteous Greek, Kallikrates, that stained the hands of She with his innocent blood and, amongst other ills, brought upon her the fearful curse of deathlessness while still inhabiting a sphere where Death is lord of all. Thus it seemed that by denial she would have escaped the net of many woes in which she is still entangled and of Ayesha, Daughter of Wisdom yet Folly's Salve, there would have been no tale to tell and there would have been no lesson to be learned. But Vanity - or was it Fate? - led her down another road.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
