King Solomon's MinesShe by H. Rider Haggard, Orville Prescott (introduction) - [CHiP] ScribeOfGoD

Summary


King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer & fabulist, Sir Henry Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the 1st English fictional adventure novel set in Africa, & is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre. She: A History of Adventure is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, 1st serialized in The Graphic from October 1886 to January 1887. In reprints it was extraordinarily popular in its time, & has remained in print to the present day. She is generally considered to be one of the classics of imaginative literature & with 83 million copies sold by 1965, one of the best-selling books of all time. This work developed the conventions of the Lost World sub-genre, which many other authors emulated.







Title: King Solomon's Mines/She


Author(s): H. Rider Haggard, Orville Prescott (introduction)


Published 1957 by Modern Library (NY) (first published 1887)


Language: English


Length: Hardcover, 266 pages


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