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Henry Rider Haggard was born in 1856. His most famous novel, King Solomon's Mines (1885), was one of the inspirational texts of the British Empire in the late Victorian era, which effectively started the cult of the bestseller and launched the genre of adventure-imperialism. He followed this with She (1887) and Allan Quatermain (1887). He was knighted in 1912 and died in 1925 Stephen Coan, is an assistant editor of the Natal WitnessH. Rider Haggard is the author of 'Diary of An African Journey: The Return of Rider Haggard', published 2001 under ISBN 9780814736319 and ISBN 0814736319.
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