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    A Study Guide for Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines"
    A Study Guide for Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines"
    A Study Guide for Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines"
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    A Study Guide for Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines"

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    A Study Guide for Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535826914
    A Study Guide for Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines"

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      A Study Guide for Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines" - Gale

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      King Solomon's Mines

      H. Rider Haggard

      1885

      Introduction

      A novel of African adventure, filled with big game hunting, treasure seeking, desert expeditions, and tribal warfare, H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines was published in 1885 as the result of a bet between the author and one of his brothers. Challenged by his brother to craft a novel more popular than Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, which had been published in book form in 1883, Haggard reportedly wrote King Solomon's Mines, his third novel, in approximately six weeks. The main character, elephant hunter turned treasure hunter Allan Quatermain, became a recurring character in Haggard's subsequent novels.

      The plot of the adventure novel is fueled by Sir Henry Curtis's efforts to find his lost brother, whom he believes has been searching for the diamond trove buried in the mythical mines of King Solomon. Curtis is accompanied by a friend, Captain John Good, and by the narrator Quatermain, whom Curtis hires to organize the expedition. As the journey progresses, the men follow an ancient map, overcome the dangers of exhaustion, starvation, and thirst, and come to a land populated by a large community of native Africans distantly related to the Zulu tribe. Events unfold to reveal that the servant Umbopa is actually the rightful king of this tribe, having been exiled long ago after his father's murder. Together with Good, Quatermain, and Curtis, Umbopa, now known as Ignosi, leads a revolt against the wrongful king Twala and defeats him. The white men then proceed to King Solomon's mines, where they are led to a store of diamonds, and the men manage to escape entombment in the mines with a handful of diamonds in their pockets. The work has inspired several film adaptations and shaped the adventure-fiction genre, despite the fact that it is often criticized for the racist attitudes it portrays. Originally published in 1885, King Solomon's Mines is available in a modern edition published in 2002 and others.

      Author Biography

      Born on June 22, 1856, in Norfolk, England, to William and Ella Haggard, Henry Rider Haggard was the sixth of seven sons. His father, a barrister, provided his son with an education at Ipswich grammar school and by private tutors. When he was nineteen years old, Haggard traveled to South Africa, having secured a position as a secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer. He lived there from 1875 to 1879. Returning home briefly to marry Mariana Louisa Margitson, Haggard journeyed once again to South Africa with his bride in 1880. The couple eventually had four children.

      In his professional capacity, Haggard became involved with British colonial efforts, including the annexation of the Transvaal region of South Africa, previously held by the Dutch. Through the course of his experience in venturing into the African bush and learning the Zulu language, history, and culture, Haggard gathered material that would later make its way into his novel King Solomon's Mines. He and his wife returned to England in 1881, and Haggard halfheartedly pursued a career in law. He also began writing, publishing an analysis of South African politics in 1882. He published two relatively unsuccessful novels before taking

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