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    King Solomon's MinesBook by H. Rider Haggard
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    Background

    The book was first published in September 1885 amid considerable fanfare, with billboards and posters around … See more

    Plot

    Allan Quatermain, an adventurer and white hunter based in the African city of Durban, is approached by aristocrat Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good, seeking his help finding Sir Henry's brother, who was last seen tr… See more

    Originally publishedSeptember 1, 1885
    AuthorH. Rider Haggard
    SeriesAllan Quatermain · Allan Quatermain, Ayesha, and Umslopogaas
    GenreClassics · Fiction · Adventure · Fantasy · Africa · Historical Fiction · Literature · 19th Century · Novels

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    Literary significance and criticism

    Haggard wrote the novel as a result of a five-shilling wager with his brother, who said that he could not write a novel half as good as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883). He wrote it in a short time, somewher… See more

    Adaptations in other media

    The novel has been adapted to film at least seven times. The first cinema adaptation (a silent film version) was directed by Horace Lisle Lucoque in 1919 (now lost), followed by the first sound version in 1937, King Solomon's … See more

    Further reading

    • Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 137. See more

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