Henry Rider Haggard

King Solomon's Mines (Annotated) Henry Rider Haggard

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. King Solomon's Mines, is a popular novel by the Victorian writer of adventure and fables, H. Rider Haggard, written in 1882. It tells a story of adventures in an unexplored region of Africa, made by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search from a brother of one of these explorers. The importance of the work lies in the fact that it was the first adventure fiction novel set in Africa in English, and is considered to be the genesis of the literary genre about different and unknown worlds. The book was written in the winter of 1882 and its creation took 6 weeks narrated by the same in his memoirs The Days of My Life, by H. Rider Haggard and it was published for the first time in September 1885 in a great advertising campaign, with billboards and posters in London announcing "the most amazing book ever written". It became a best seller right away. In the late 19th century, explorers were discovering ancient civilizations around the world, such as the Valley of the Kings of Egypt,