King Solomon's Mines (Paperback)

H. Rider Haggard

ISBN 10: 1551114399 / ISBN 13: 9781551114392

Editore: Broadview Press Ltd, Peterborough, 2002

Paperback. When first published, King Solomons Mines (1885) was an enormous popular 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.This edition includes contemporary reviews, other writings by Haggard on Africa and romance, and documents focusing on imperialism and diamond mining in late nineteenth-century South Africa. Readers of this excellent new edition will find that the fictions of imperialism were richer and stranger than they had thought. Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781551114392

Riassunto:

When first published, King Solomon’s Mines (1885) was an enormous popular 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.

This edition includes contemporary reviews, other writings by Haggard on Africa and romance, and documents focusing on imperialism and diamond mining in late nineteenth-century South Africa.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Gerald Monsman is a Professor of English at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Olive Schreiner’s Fiction: Landscape and Power (1991).

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Titolo: King Solomon's Mines (Paperback)
Casa editrice: Broadview Press Ltd, Peterborough
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: new