King Solomon's Mines

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King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard that follows explorer Allan Quatermain on a perilous expedition into unexplored African territory in search of a legendary treasure.

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instanceOf adventure novel
novel
adaptedAs King Solomon's Mines (1937 film)
King Solomon's Mines (1950 film score)
surface form: King Solomon's Mines (1950 film)

King Solomon's Mines (1985 film)
King Solomon's Mines (TV miniseries, 2004)
author H. Rider Haggard
containsElement hidden treasure
lost kingdom
royal succession struggle
tribal warfare
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstEditionFormat three-volume edition
followedBy Allan Quatermain
genre adventure fiction
lost world fiction
hasCharacter Captain John Good
Gagool
Sir Henry Curtis
Twala
Umbopa
hasIllustrator Walter Paget
hasInfluenceOn Indiana Jones franchise
adventure pulp fiction
hasMotiveForQuest search for Sir Henry Curtis's lost brother
hasPart discovery of Kukuanaland
journey across desert
search for King Solomon's treasure
influenced lost world genre
inspiredBy African exploration
language English
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
mainCharacter Allan Quatermain
mediaType print
narrator Allan Quatermain
notableFor being one of the earliest African adventure novels in English
popularizing the treasure-hunt adventure formula
originalAudience adult readers
publicationDate 1885
publisher Cassell
surface form: Cassell & Company
setting Africa
theme colonial attitudes
courage
friendship
greed
imperialism
timePeriodInFiction 19th century

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Robert Surtees notableWork King Solomon's Mines
Robert Surtees workedOn King Solomon's Mines
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines basedOn King Solomon's Mines
this entity surface form: King Solomon's Mines (concept)
Flynn Carsen notableArtifactRecovered King Solomon's Mines
Walter Plunkett notableWork King Solomon's Mines
Richard Chamberlain notableWork King Solomon's Mines
this entity surface form: King Solomon's Mines (1985 film)
Helen Deutsch notableWork King Solomon's Mines
Deborah Kerr notableWork King Solomon's Mines
Sam Zimbalist notableWork King Solomon's Mines
Sam Zimbalist produced King Solomon's Mines
Shangani Patrol incident relatedWork King Solomon's Mines
this entity surface form: novel "King Solomon’s Mines" (inspiration for frontier mythos)
Ralph E. Winters notableWork King Solomon's Mines
Alison Doody notableWork King Solomon's Mines
Alison Doody appearedIn King Solomon's Mines
Andrew Marton notableWork King Solomon's Mines
Andrew Marton directed King Solomon's Mines
Andrew Marton edited King Solomon's Mines