Fiction · 1885
King Solomon’s Mines
King Solomon’s Mines, first published in 1885, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Dedication
- Author’s Note
- Introduction
- Chapter I — I Meet Sir Henry Curtis
- Chapter II — The Legend of Solomon’s Mines
- Chapter III — Umbopa Enters Our Service
- Chapter IV — An Elephant Hunt
- Chapter V — Our March Into the Desert
- Chapter VI — Water! Water!
- Chapter VII — Solomon’s Road
- Chapter VIII — We Enter Kukuanaland
- Chapter IX — Twala the King
- Chapter X — The Witch-Hunt
- Chapter XI — We Give a Sign
- Chapter XII — Before the Battle
- Chapter XIII — The Attack
- Chapter XIV — The Last Stand of the Greys
- Chapter XV — Good Falls Sick
- Chapter XVI — The Place of Death
- Chapter XVII — Solomon’s Treasure Chamber
- Chapter XVIII — We Abandon Hope
- Chapter XIX — Ignosi’s Farewell
- Chapter XX — Found
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1856–1925 · Victorian
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was born in Bradenham, Norfolk, and went out to South Africa at nineteen on the staff of the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, witnessing the British annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 and later farming ostriches there before returning to England to study law. King Solomon's Mines (1885), reportedly written on a wager with his brother that he could not write a novel as good as Treasure Island, was an immediate sensation and established the "lost world" adventure novel as a genre; She (1887) and Allan Quatermain (1887) followed, and Haggard returned to the character of Allan Quatermain across some eighteen further books over the next four decades. Away from fiction he wrote extensively on agriculture and rural welfare, served on royal commissions on land settlement and coastal erosion, and was knighted in 1912 for this public service. He died in London at sixty-eight.
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