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King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

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Touted by its 1885 publisher as “the most amazing story ever written,” King Solomon’s Mines was one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century. H. Rider Haggard’s thrilling saga of elephant hunter Allan Quatermain and his search for fabled treasure is more than just an adventure story, though: As Alexandra Fuller explains in her Introduction, in its vivid portrayal of the alliances and battles of white colonials and African tribesmen, King Solomon’s Mines “brings us the world of extreme

First published 1955 301 pages
Category
Literature
Priority
Recommended
Author works
3
Editions known
400
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DDC 741.5941 LCC PR-4731.00000000 K518 2003 Adventure and adventurersAdventure and adventurers, fictionAdventure fictionAdventure storiesAfrica -- FictionAfrica, fictionAllan Quatermain (Fictitious character)British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
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ISBN 9780307431349 English First-edition ISBN: 9780304922727
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