King Solomon's Mines (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) FROM OUR EDITORS
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One of the best-selling novels of the nineteenth century, King
Solomon’s Mines has inspired dozens of adventure stories,
including Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan books and the Indiana Jones
movies. Vivid and enormously action-packed, H. Rider Haggard’s tale
of danger and discovery continues to shock and thrill, as it has since it
was first presented to the public and heralded as “the most amazing
book ever written.”
The story begins when renowned safari hunter Allan Quartermain agrees to
help Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good search for King
Solomon’s legendary cache of diamonds. Eager to find out what is
true, what is myth, and what is really buried in the darkness of the
mines, the tireless adventurers delve into the Sahara’s treacherous
Veil of Sand, where they stumble upon a mysterious lost tribe of African
warriors. Finding themselves in deadly peril from that country’s
cruel king and the evil sorceress who conspires behind his throne, the
explorers escape, but what they seek could be the most savage trap of
all—the forbidden, impenetrable, and spectacular King
Solomon’s Mines.
Benjamin Ivry is the author of biographies of Arthur Rimbaud,
Francis Poulenc, and Maurice Ravel. His poetry collection Paradise for
the Portuguese Queen appeared in 1998.
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