King Solomon's mines
When first published, King Solomon's Mines (1885) was an enormous success, The narrative follows the explorations of Allan Quatermain, a fortune hunter who travels to Africa in search of ancient treasures and a lost fellow explorer. Written as an adventure story, the novel is also a late-Victorian i...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ontario :
Broadview Press,
2004.
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| Summary: | When first published, King Solomon's Mines (1885) was an enormous success, The narrative follows the explorations of Allan Quatermain, a fortune hunter who travels to Africa in search of ancient treasures and a lost fellow explorer. Written as an adventure story, the novel is also a late-Victorian imperial romance that illuminates the politics of British imperialist capitalism in 1870s and 1880s South Africa. |
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| Item Description: | Includes biographical references. |
| Physical Description: | 306 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781551114392 |
| Author Notes: | Gerald Monsmanis a Professor of English at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Olive Schreiner's Fiction: Landscape and Power(1991). |
