- Children's fiction, Mines and mineral resources, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Large type books
<p><i>King Solomon’s Mines</i> was published in September 1885, becoming an immediate best seller by tapping into people’s excitement for the unknown: in this case, the unexplored regions of Africa.</p> <p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-rider-haggard">Haggard</a> wrote the novel in a very short period, between six and sixteen months, on a bet with his brother to try to match <a…
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- H. Rider Haggard
- First published
- May 2000
- Pages
- 222
- Publisher
- Quiet Vision Pub, Modern Library, IndyPublish.com
- Editions
- 1105
- Language
- und, urd, English, tha
- ISBN
- 9798543995228
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- Children's fiction
- Mines and mineral resources, fiction
- Adventure and adventurers, fiction
- Large type books
- Quatermain, allan (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, action & adventure
- Africa -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Adventure stories
- Treasure troves -- Fiction
- Hunting guides -- Fiction
- Diamond mines and mining -- Fiction
“It is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a history.”
English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre.
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