H Rider Haggard

King Solomon's Mines (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It 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 long one to me, owing to my having begun work so young, perhaps. At an age when other boys are at school I was earning my living as a trader in the old Colony. I have been trading, hunting, fighting, or mining ever since. And yet it is only eight months ago that I made my pile. It is a big pile now that I have got it-I don't yet know how big-but I do not think I would go through the last fifteen or sixteen months again for it; no, not if I knew that I should come out safe at the end, pile and all. But then I am a timid man, and dislike violence; moreover, I am almost sick of adventure. I wonder why I am going to write this book: it is not in my line. I am not a literary man, though very devoted to the Old Testament and also to the "Ingoldsby Legends." Let me try to set down my reasons, just to see if I have any.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BoD - Books on Demand
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783735723000
• Artikelnr.: 56549121

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Fuller, the author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight (available from Random House Trade Paperbacks), was born in England in 1969. In 1972 she moved with her family to a farm in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). She has also lived in Malawi, Zambia, and Wyoming.