King Solomon's Mines

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King Solomon's Mines, first published in 1885, was a best-selling novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist, H. Rider Haggard. It relates a journey into the heart of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of the legendary wealth said to be concealed in the mines of the novel's title. The novel is said have been written as a result of a wager, that he could not write a novel as good as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

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1885 - H. Rider Haggard - Africa - Allan Quatermain - Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

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The novel was written largely from the first person subjective perspective as a journaled account of the adventure. This goes rather against the general grain of mid- and later Victorian fiction which had adopted the position of the third-person omniscient perspective favored by influential writers such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Anthony Trollope.

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Charles Dickens - Wilkie Collins - Anthony Trollope

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The "King Solomon" of the book's title was of course the Biblical king renowned both for his wisdom and for his wealth. A number of sites have been identified as being the location of the mines of Solomon, including the workings at Timna near Eilat. (Not to mention numerous other fictional locations.)

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King Solomon - Biblical - Timna - Eilat

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There have been at least 4 adaptions to the screen.

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