King Solomon’s mines / H. Ryder Haggard
dc.contributor | Dell, Thomas |
dc.contributor.author | Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925 |
dc.coverage.placeName | Roslyn |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:00:15Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:00:15Z |
dc.date.created | 1885 |
dc.date.issued | 1993-10-28 |
dc.identifier | ota:1977 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1977 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1977 |
dc.description.abstract | Resource deposited with the Oxford Text Archive. |
dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 419 KB) |
dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.subject.lcsh | English fiction -- 19th century |
dc.subject.other | Novels |
dc.title | King Solomon’s mines / H. Ryder Haggard |
dc.type | Text |
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branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 433076 |
files.count | 2 |
otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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KING SOLOMON'S MINES by H. RYDER HAGGARD
Scanned and proofread by Kirk N. Robinson
(kirkr@panix.com or robinsonk@ey.geis.com)
28 Oct 1993
From the Black's Readers Service edition one-volume
edition "The Works Of H. Ryder Haggard" (Roslyn, NY) edition
publication 1928
Originally published 1885
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KING SOLOMON'S MINES
by
H. Ryder Haggard
CHAPTER I--I MEET SIR HENRY CURTIS
IT is a curious thing that at my age--fifty-
five last birthday--I should find myself
taking up a pen to try and write a
history. I wonder what sort of a history it
will be when I have done it, if I ever come
to the end of the trip! I have done a good
many things in my life, which seems a
long one to me, owing to my having
begun so young, perhaps. At an age when
other boys are at school I was earning
m . . .