Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 02/05/2013
ISBN: 9780099582830
Length: 336 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
Weight: 235g
RRP: £12.99
Read the thrilling Victorian blockbuster, with an introduction from Booker prize-winning author Margaret Atwood.
A note from The Editor:
I feel it incumbent upon me to explain how this wonderful and mysterious history found its way into my hands. I received a letter and two parcels- one a manuscript, the other containing a scarab and an ancient sherd - from a brief acquaintance of mine called Mr Horace Holly. Mr Holly and his ward Leo Vincey had passed through a most uncommon African adventure, a tale of a nature so marvellous that I fear the reader might disbelieve it. To me the story seems to bear the stamp of truth upon its face. But I must leave the reader to form his own judgment... And with this explanation I introduce the world to Ayesha - She-who-must-be-obeyed - and the Caves of Kôr.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 02/05/2013
ISBN: 9780099582830
Length: 336 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 21mm x 129mm
Weight: 235g
RRP: £12.99
Exciting...remarkable imaginative power
Few books bolder in conception, more vigorous in treatment, or fresher in fancy, have appeared for a long time
The more impossible it gets the better Mr. Haggard does it...his astonishing imagination, and a certain vraisemblance makes the most impossible adventures appear true
My father used to read me lots of fabulous, old fashioned adventure stories but I've been haunted by King Solomon's Mines by H Rider Haggard. It's a fantastically bloodthirsty novel, of course, but the bit that stayed with this eight year-old girl when the lights went out was the part where they go into the mines and see all the skeletons of the people who had been there before them. It wasn't the physical remains that bothered me, but the worry about what had happened to their spirits. Were their souls trapped down there? Only now do I realise how much Haggard has influenced my own writing about ghosts and underground caves.
She is a marvel