検索キーワード： "Sir Henry Rider Haggard" 文学・フィクション

King Solomon’s Mines is set in nineteenth-century Africa. Allan Quartermain, hunter, is commissioned by the valiant Sir Henry Curtis and his jovial friend Captain Good to lead them to the fabled lost mines of King Solomon. In the company of these dauntless men we undertake the most exciting safari ever described. We hunt big game, we go to war with the terrifying King Twala of Kukuanaland and his diabolical henchwoman Gagaoola - and are amazed by the twist at the end.

Znamenityj istoricheskij roman vydajushhegosja anglijskogo pisatelja, klassika mirovoj prikljuchencheskoj literatury, narjadu s L'juisom Kjerrollom i Jedgarom Po osnovopolozhnikom zhanra fjentezi Genri Rajdera Haggarda. Dejstvie romana proishodit v drevnem Egipte, vo vremena pravlenija Ptolemeev. Roman rasskazyvaet o zagovore verhovnyh zhrecov, reshivshih sbrosit' s trona nenavistnuju caricu Kleopatru, otdavshuju Egipet vo vlast' Rima.