Andrew Lang & Walter Herries Pollock 1 hr 12 min read

A witty prose parody of Rider Haggard's 'She,' spinning the eternal romance of a deathless queen into gentle comic burlesque.

Andrew Lang and W. H. Pollock's 1887 book affectionately lampoons the immense Victorian craze for Haggard's lost-world romances. Playful, clever period satire. Read it for a good-humored send-up of the adventure fiction that gripped the 1880s, from one of the era's great men of letters.

In its time

Published in 1887, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

1 hr 12 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).