King Solomon's Mines

novel by Henry Rider Haggard (1885)

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Author: H. Rider Haggard
First published: 1880
Editions: 1,091
Subjects: 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

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Author: H. Rider Haggard
Language: English
Series: Allan Quatermain Series
Genre: Lost World , Adventure fiction
Publisher: Cassell and Company
Publication place: United Kingdom
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King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist H. Rider Haggard. Published by Cassell and Company, it tells of an expedition through an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain, searching for the missing brother of one of the party. It is one of the first English adventure novels set in Africa and is considered to be the genesis of the lost world literary genre. It is the first of fourteen novels and four short stories by Haggard about Allan Quatermain.

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