King Solomon's Mines

by H. Rider Haggard · first published 1885

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.

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Genre:

Adventure fiction, Lost world fiction

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 4.2 / 5 (29 on Open Library)

Year page:

1885