King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard

Credits: H. Rider Haggard (author)

Summary

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. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

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Chapters (20)

  1. 1. I Meet Sir Henry Curtis
  2. 2. The Legend of Solomon’s Mines
  3. 3. Umbopa Enters Our Service
  4. 4. An Elephant Hunt
  5. 5. Our March into the Desert
  6. 6. Water! Water!
  7. 7. Solomon’s Road
  8. 8. We Enter Kukuanaland
  9. 9. Twala the King
  10. 10. The Witch-Hunt
  11. 11. We Give a Sign
  12. 12. Before the Battle
  13. 13. The Attack
  14. 14. The Last Stand of the Greys
  15. 15. Good Falls Sick
  16. 16. The Place of Death
  17. 17. Solomon’s Treasure Chamber
  18. 18. We Abandon Hope
  19. 19. Ignosi’s Farewell
  20. 20. Found

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