Short Review: Ayesha: The Return of She by H. Rider Haggard

In Ayesha, the sequel to H.Rider Haggard's hugely popular She (1886), the heroes, Horace Holly and Leo Vincy travel to Tibet and finally reach a Central Asian kingdom where the priestess Hesea, they believe is She/ Ayesha reincarnated. With Haggard falling in love with his own heroine and trying to show her in a more and …

Two Nineteenth Century Novels

After the twenty-first century, time to go back and revisit the nineteenth century.THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB (1886)Cover image of the first edition @ WikipediaThe Mystery of a Hansom Cab is the first novel of English writer, Fergus Hume. Set in the city of Melbourne, the mystery involves the murder of a man in …