With illustrations and illuminated chapter initials; artist not attributed.
This parody of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines (1885) is of Science Fiction interest specifically for the spoof description of how the protagonists travel in a balloon equipped with a device which keeps it stationary while the world turns beneath it. A fast and bumpy ride, sometimes veering off-road into regions of slapstick.
Hyder Ragged was the pseudonym of UK lawyer and author Henry Chartres Biron (1863-1940). This pseudonym has sometimes erroneously been ascribed to John de Morgan, himself the author of several Haggard parodies.
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King Solomons Wives, by Henry Chartres Biron (1863-1940), was first published in 1887. This ebook is in the public domain where copyright is Life+80 or less, and in the USA.
This parody of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines (1885) is of Science Fiction interest specifically for the spoof description of how the protagonists travel in a balloon equipped with a device which keeps it stationary while the world turns beneath it. A fast and bumpy ride, sometimes veering off-road into regions of slapstick.
Hyder Ragged was the pseudonym of UK lawyer and author Henry Chartres Biron (1863-1940). This pseudonym has sometimes erroneously been ascribed to John de Morgan, himself the author of several Haggard parodies.
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King Solomons Wives, by Henry Chartres Biron (1863-1940), was first published in 1887. This ebook is in the public domain where copyright is Life+80 or less, and in the USA.
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