Henry Rider Haggard

King Solomon's Mines (Annotated) Henry Rider Haggard

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, which helps us understand this literary work. We must pay special attention to those events that especially influenced the world of culture and art and also to those events that were especially reflected in literature, in the life of its writer or that affected it. There are many examples in which historical events have shaped the content and forms of literature, as well as this has often been the best testimony to the importance of certain events throughout history. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its period. 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