King Solomon's Mines
About this book
King Solomon’s Mines was published in September 1885, becoming an immediate best seller by tapping into people’s excitement for the unknown: in this case, the unexplored regions of Africa.
Haggard wrote the novel in a very short period, between six and sixteen months, on a bet with his brother to try to match Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. In the process he created a new literary genre known as the “Lost World” genre, which would later influence other writers like Arthur Conan Doyle and H. P. Lovecraft.
The book tells the tale of Allan Quatermain, an adventurer and hunter, who is approached by Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good to help them find Curtis’ lost brother, who went missing while trying to find the fabled King Solomon’s Mines.
This book has spawned multiple adaptations in the form of movies, comics, and TV shows.
Subjects
- adventure and adventurers
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- adventure fiction
- adventure stories
- africa -- fiction
- africa, fiction
- allan quatermain (fictitious character)
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- buried treasure
- children's fiction
- classic literature
- diamond mines and mining
- diamond mines and mining -- fiction
- english adventure stories
- english language
- english literature
- ficción
- fiction
- fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, thrillers, general
- guías de caza
- hunting guides
- hunting guides -- fiction
- juvenile fiction
- large type books
- literature
- long now manual for civilization
- lost world
- mines and mineral resources, fiction
- missing persons
- missing persons -- fiction
- missing persons, fiction
- personas desaparecidas
- quatermain, allan (fictitious character) -- fiction
- quatermain, allan (fictitious character), fiction
- quatermain, allan (personaje literario)
- quatermain, allan (personnages fictifs)
- reference foreign languages general
- reference foreign languages instruction english as a f aaaa0
- reference foreign languages instruction english as a foreign
- roman anglais
- romans, nouvelles
- south africa, fiction
- tesoros ocultos
- text-books for foreigners
- translations into portuguese
- treasure troves
- treasure-troves
- treasure troves -- fiction
- young adult fiction