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King Solomon's Mines

H Rider Haggard

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Allan Quatermain joins Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good on a search for a missing man in the African interior. A difficult route and the promise of hidden treasure draw the expedition into a country where its arrival intersects with a struggle for power.

22 sections82,282 wordsAbout 6 h 14 min
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About King Solomon's Mines

Quatermain's practical voice mixes warnings about danger with pride in professional experience. Maps, provisions and bodily endurance give the expedition material limits. His descriptions also carry assumptions about the people he meets; noticing those judgments helps distinguish the narrator's confidence from the knowledge and agency of other characters.

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Follow the expedition's dependence on local knowledge alongside Quatermain's claims to experience and authority.

This reading edition contains 82,282 words in 22 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.

Author: H Rider Haggard. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.

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DEDICATION This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator, ALLAN QUATERMAIN, to all the big and little boys who read it.

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Contents

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  1. Dedication and Author’s Note2 min
  2. INTRODUCTION3 min
  3. CHAPTER I. I MEET SIR HENRY CURTIS17 min
  4. CHAPTER II. THE LEGEND OF SOLOMON’S MINES17 min
  5. CHAPTER III. UMBOPA ENTERS OUR SERVICE20 min
  6. CHAPTER IV. AN ELEPHANT HUNT16 min
  7. CHAPTER V. OUR MARCH INTO THE DESERT23 min
  8. CHAPTER VI. WATER! WATER!19 min
  9. CHAPTER VII. SOLOMON’S ROAD27 min
  10. CHAPTER VIII. WE ENTER KUKUANALAND14 min
  11. CHAPTER IX. TWALA THE KING21 min
  12. CHAPTER X. THE WITCH-HUNT21 min
  13. CHAPTER XI. WE GIVE A SIGN23 min
  14. CHAPTER XII. BEFORE THE BATTLE18 min
  15. CHAPTER XIII. THE ATTACK15 min
  16. CHAPTER XIV. THE LAST STAND OF THE GREYS29 min
  17. CHAPTER XV. GOOD FALLS SICK18 min
  18. CHAPTER XVI. THE PLACE OF DEATH19 min
  19. CHAPTER XVII. SOLOMON’S TREASURE CHAMBER19 min
  20. CHAPTER XVIII. WE ABANDON HOPE18 min
  21. CHAPTER XIX. IGNOSI’S FAREWELL16 min
  22. CHAPTER XX. FOUND10 min

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