King Solomon's MinesBroadview Press, 12 d’ag. 2002 - 306 pàgines 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. |
Continguts
Preface | 7 |
Introduction | 9 |
A Brief Chronology | 32 |
A Note on the Text | 34 |
King Solomons Mines | 35 |
1 The Saturday Review 10 October 1885 | 245 |
2 Robert Louis Stevenson 1885 | 247 |
4 The Literary World 23 January 1886 | 248 |
4 About Fiction 1887 | 269 |
1 Fred Fynney Zululand and the Zulus 1880 | 274 |
2 John Ruskin Lectures on Art 1873 | 277 |
3 Cecil Rhodes Confession of Faith 1877 | 278 |
4 Cecil Rhodes Speeches 18811900 | 279 |
5 Olive Schreiner Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland 1897 | 280 |
6 Olive Schreiner Thoughts on South Africa 189092 | 282 |
113 | 287 |
5 Gerard Manley Hopkins 28 October 1886 | 249 |
7 The Book Buyer August 1887 | 250 |
8 The Church Quarterly Review January 1888 | 251 |
9 Fortnightly Review I September 1888 | 252 |
10 Forum May 1889 | 253 |
1 Notes on King Solomons Mines 1906 | 254 |
3 A Zulu WarDance 1877 | 255 |
3 The Ophir of Scripture The Illustrated London News January 1873 | 289 |
4 Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley The Ruined Cities of Zulu Land 1869 | 290 |
5 Olive Schreiner Diamond Fields c 1880 | 296 |
6 Frederick Courteney Selous A Hunters Wanderings in Africa 1881 | 297 |
Works Cited and Recommended Reading | 303 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Allan Quatermain Andrew Lang answered asked assegai beautiful biltong blood Bougwan brother Captain cave chief dark dead death desert diamonds Durban elephant eyes face fear feet fiction fight followed Foulata Gagool girl Good's Greys Haggard hand head heard heart hundred Ignosi Incubu Infadoos Ingoldsby Legends journey Kafir killed King Solomon's Mines kraal Kukuana Kukuanaland land live looked lords Macumazahn mountains Natal native never night once ourselves plumes poor Presently Quatermain regiment Rider Haggard rifle road rock round savage Scragga seemed seen Sheba shield sight Sir Henry Curtis Sir Henry's South Africa spear stars stone stood story strange tell thee Theophilus Shepstone thing thou thought thousand took Transvaal treasure turned Twala Umbopa Ventvögel warriors whilst wild words wounded yards Zulu Zululand