King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard, Benjamin Ivry • BookLikes (ISBN:1411432495)

King Solomon's Mines

by: Benjamin Ivry (author) H. Rider Haggard (author)

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King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors

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Format: ebook

ISBN: 9781411432499 (1411432495)

Publish date: June 1st 2009

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics

Pages no: 272

Edition language: English

Category:

Fantasy, Adventure, Classics, Novels, Literature, Cultural, Africa, Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Fiction

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riley rated it

10 years ago

http://riley.booklikes.com riley 3.0 Highly influential if nothing else

text Highly influential if nothing else

I was only familiar with this story from the '80s Hollywood version, which I had been told was drastically different from the book. Sure enough, it absolutely was. So much of it is utterly different as to be (nearly) a different story. But anyway... Putting aside the problems we may find in Victoria...

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kneubeck rated it

11 years ago

http://kneubeck.booklikes.com kneubeck 3.0 Der erste Quatermain

text Der erste Quatermain

"King Solomon's Mines" ist der erste Allan Quatermain Roman (zumindest zu erst erschienen). Hier trifft er auf Sir Henry Curtis und Captain John Good, die auf der Suche nach dem Sir Henry's verschollenem Bruder sind, der auf der Suche nach Salomon's Mine war. Nach einigem Überlegen schließt Quaterma...

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Lisa (Harmony) rated it

11 years ago

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This is an old fashioned adventure yarn and its hero, Alan Quatermain, is a direct ancestor of Indiana Jones. I'm not going to claim that Haggard even at his best is the same order of classic as the best by Charles Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot or Thomas Hardy. But like fellow Victorians Arthur...

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Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd rated it

11 years ago

http://davidsarkies.booklikes.com Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd 3.0 The original Indiana Jones

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I remember watching a movie based on this book starring Richard Chamberlain. I actually quite enjoyed the film, though one of the major differences that I discovered between the film and the book is the inclusion of a beautiful white female. I guess that is what one really has to expect from Hollywo...

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Because I'm Batman rated it

12 years ago

http://batcave.booklikes.com Because I'm Batman 2.0

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The narrative style was definitely different from the modern adventures novels I've read, but it was still fairly entertaining. A sojourn across desert and mountains, instigating a civil war, nearly buried alive ... fun stuff. Granted, there were more than a few moments when I wanted to shout, "Are ...

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