Kadın'ın öyküsü Henry Rider Haggard'ın aklına düştüğünde, kaleminin hızı düşüncelerine yetişmekte büyük güçlük çekti. Bir solukta ortaya koyduğu eseri, yazarın en başarılı romanı olmakla kalmadı, Ayişe karakteriyle ölümsüzleştirdiği güçlü kadın figürü, kendisinden sonraki pek çok temsile de ilham oldu. Cambridge Üniversitesi'nin güvenli sularından Afrika'nın bilinmez diyarlarına yola çıkan Horace Holly ve evlatlık oğlu Leo Vincey, kendilerini akıl almaz bir maceranın içerisinde bulurlar. İki bin yıldır y

Ladies and gentlemen, he said at last, with a shake of his grizzled head, I am very sorry to disappoint you, but I cannot do it. It is this way. At the request of Sir Henry and Captain Good I have written down a true and plain account of King Solomon's Mines and how we found them, so you will soon be able to learn all about that wonderful adventure for yourselves; but until then I will say nothing about it, not from any wish to disappoint your curiosity, or to make myself important, but simply because the w

It was in this very month something over twenty years ago that I, Ludwig Horace Holly, was sitting one night in my rooms at Cambridge, grinding away at some mathematical work, I forget what. I was to go up for my fellowship within a week, and was expected by my tutor and my college generally to distinguish myself. At last, wearied out, I flung my book down, and, going to the mantelpiece, took down a pipe and filled it. There was a candle burning on the mantelpiece, and a long, narrow glass at the back of it