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Description

Touted by its 1885 publisher as “the most amazing story ever written,” King Solomon’s Mines was one of the bestselling novels of the nineteenth century. H. Rider Haggard’s thrilling saga of elephant hunter Allan Quatermain and his search for fabled treasure is more than just an adventure... read more

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First Sentence

It is a curious thing that at my age—fifty-five last birthday—I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a history.

Authors & Contributors

  1. H. Rider Haggard (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Betty Millsaps Jones
 

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