This is a novel about the natives, who were often gentlemen, and about gentlemen who always remained themselves, but sometimes... But try differently, when there is a mountain of diamonds ahead, and around the Halls of Death. As the ingenuous narrator of this story, the hunter Quartermain, assures, there is not a single skirt in the book, except for Fulata, and even Gagool... However, was this terrible woman a woman?.. In a word, it is better to figure it out yourself, or rather, in the company of the narrator, a smart and therefore cautious man, and his two European friends - a giant like an elephant and a man with a glass eye and two sets of teeth. "King Solomon's Mines" is a timeless classic of the adventure genre. The novel has been filmed several times (there are at least 7 films, despite its fame, which are very far from the original). The charming image of the main character influenced many writers and filmmakers. It is known, for example, that Indiana Jones from Spielberg’s films is in some distant relationship with Haggard’s hero. The illustrated collection of the writer’s works opens with two novels from the series about Allan Quartermain: “King Solomon’s Mines” and “The Sacred Flower.”