King Solomon's Mines
Autor H. Rider Haggarden Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 noi 2006
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781598186260
ISBN-10: 1598186264
Pagini: 188
Dimensiuni: 154 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Aegypan Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1598186264
Pagini: 188
Dimensiuni: 154 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Aegypan Press
Locul publicării:United States
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Descriere
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'Don't you see that we are buried alive?'When Allan Quatermain is approached by Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good to search for Sir Henry's missing brother, deep in the African interior, he agrees to lead their expedition. Quatermain has a map to the fabled King Solomon's Mines, whose treasure the missing man sought to attain. Their journey takes them to Kukuanaland, where they find a warrior tribe in thrall to King Twala. Soon the white men are embroiled in a desperate tribal battle, and Quatermain's expedition can only reach its goal with the aid of Gagool, the ancient 'mother' no one trusts. Haggard's exciting adventure story captivated readers when it was first published in 1885. It helped inaugurate a wave of 'lost world' romances inspired by the exploits of British explorers in colonial Africa. This new edition looks at Haggard's own African experiences and unlikely literary success, and his ambivalent attitude to the native tribes and the ravages of the British Empire. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
'Don't you see that we are buried alive?'When Allan Quatermain is approached by Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good to search for Sir Henry's missing brother, deep in the African interior, he agrees to lead their expedition. Quatermain has a map to the fabled King Solomon's Mines, whose treasure the missing man sought to attain. Their journey takes them to Kukuanaland, where they find a warrior tribe in thrall to King Twala. Soon the white men are embroiled in a desperate tribal battle, and Quatermain's expedition can only reach its goal with the aid of Gagool, the ancient 'mother' no one trusts. Haggard's exciting adventure story captivated readers when it was first published in 1885. It helped inaugurate a wave of 'lost world' romances inspired by the exploits of British explorers in colonial Africa. This new edition looks at Haggard's own African experiences and unlikely literary success, and his ambivalent attitude to the native tribes and the ravages of the British Empire. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Recenzii
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.
“Scholars, students and general readers will welcome Gerald Monsman’s new edition, which comes lavishly supplied with illuminating contextual documents. In a provocative introductory essay, Professor Monsman describes the mythopoeic ambition of King Solomon’s Mines by recovering its intellectual context in Victorian anthropology. Haggard sought to create an Africa of the imagination, more precious for the access it gave modern readers to their alienated psychic origins than for its material resources. 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
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.
“Scholars, students and general readers will welcome Gerald Monsman’s new edition, which comes lavishly supplied with illuminating contextual documents. In a provocative introductory essay, Professor Monsman describes the mythopoeic ambition of King Solomon’s Mines by recovering its intellectual context in Victorian anthropology. Haggard sought to create an Africa of the imagination, more precious for the access it gave modern readers to their alienated psychic origins than for its material resources. 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
Cuprins
Preface
Introduction
H. Rider Haggard: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
King Solomon’s Mines
Appendix A: Victorian Critical Reaction
Introduction
H. Rider Haggard: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
King Solomon’s Mines
Appendix A: Victorian Critical Reaction
- The Saturday Review, 10 October 1885
- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885
- The Spectator, 7 November 1885
- The Literary World, 23 January 1886
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, 28 October 1886
- The Dial, May 1887
- The Book Buyer, August 1887
- The Church Quarterly Review, January 1888
- Fortnightly Review, 1 September 1888
- Forum, May 1889
- “Notes on King Solomon’s Mines” (1906)
- “Anecdote” (c. 1876)
- “A Zulu War-Dance” (1877)
- “About Fiction” (1877)
- Fred Fynney, Zululand and the Zulus (1880)
- John Ruskin, Lectures on Art (1873)
- Cecil Rhodes,“Confession of Faith” (1877)
- Cecil Rhodes, Speeches (1881-1900)
- Olive Schreiner, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897)
- Olive Schreiner, Thoughts on South Africa (1890-92)
- The Bible, I Kings 10: 1-13
- Kebra Negast (c. 14th Century)
- “The Ophir of Scripture,” The Illustrated London News, 11 January 1873
- Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley, The Ruined Cities of Zulu Land (1869)
- Olive Schreiner, “Diamond Fields” (c. 1880)
- Frederick Courteney Selous, A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa (1890)