| King Solomon's Mines Contributor(s): Haggard, H. Rider (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798716625235 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $11.69 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Fantasy - General |
| Lexile Measure: 640 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (1.09 lbs) 208 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerpt: novel. I suppose they--the flights and flourishes--are desirable, and I regret not being able to supply them; but at the same time I cannot help thinking that simple things are always the most impressive, and that books are easier to understand when they are written in plain language, though perhaps I have no right to set up an opinion on such a matter. "A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish"; and on the same principle I venture to hope that a true story, however strange it may be, does not require to be decked out in fine words.Allan Quatermain.KING SOLOMON'S MINESCHAPTER II MEET SIR HENRY CURTISIt is a curious thing that at my age--fifty-five last birthday--I should find myself taking up a pen to try to write a history. I wonder what sort of a history it will be when I have finished it, if ever I come to the end of the trip! I have done a good many things in my life, which seems a longRead More |