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- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 15 characters, 16 places, 11 objects and 8 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 32 passages of King Solomon's Mines sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as H. Rider Haggard wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on H. Rider Haggard instead.
The King Solomon's Mines feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of King Solomon's Mines
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- The Quest Is Formed
- Into the Desert
- We Enter Kukuanaland
- The Witch-Hunt and the Sign
- I Am Ignosi
- The Battle of Loo
- The Place of Death and the Treasure
- Escape and Farewell
The author's pen in King Solomon's Mines
The passages themselves, H. Rider Haggard's own words, as Literah maps it.
- Why I Am Writingch. 1
- Is Your Name Allan Quatermainch. 1
- The Secret of Solomon’s Minesch. 2
- José da Silvestra’s Dying Mapch. 2
- Umbopa Joins the Partych. 3
- Khiva Died Like a Manch. 4
- The Wall Round Solomon’s Minesch. 5
- Tormented By Waterch. 6
- Sheba’s Breasts Revealedch. 6
- The Ancient Roadch. 7
- The Women’s Quiet Dignitych. 8
- Twala's Glorious Showch. 9
- The King Counts Onech. 10
- A Sign for the Peoplech. 11
- Darken the Moonch. 11
- Infadoos Kneels to Ignosich. 11
- Ignosi the Rightful Kingch. 12
- The Eve of Battlech. 12
- The Threefold Assaultch. 13
- The Greys' Last Standch. 14
The characters of King Solomon's Mines
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Allan Quatermainmajor
- Sir Henry Curtismajor
- Captain John Goodmajor
- Umbopa / Ignosimajor
- Twalamajor
- Gagoolmajor
- Foulatasupporting
- Infadoossupporting
- George Neville / George Curtissupporting
- Scraggasupporting
- José da Silvestramentioned
- José Silvestreminor
- Jimminor
- Khivaminor
- Ventvögelminor
The locations in King Solomon's Mines
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Durban and the Bereacity / frame setting
- The Dunkeldship
- Bamangwato / Inyati Routefrontier route
- Sitanda's Kraalkraal / desert edge
- The Desertdesert
- Sheba's Breastsmountains
- Solomon's Roadancient road
- Kukuanalandkingdom
- Twala's Kraal / Royal Enclosureroyal kraal
- The Witch-Hunt Groundritual ground
- Battlefield at Loobattlefield
- The Place of Deathroyal tomb / sacred site
- The Silent Onescolossi / monument place
- Solomon's Treasure Chambertreasure chamber
The core concepts in King Solomon's Mines
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Treasure promises freedom, but desire can become imprisonment
- Legitimate rule must replace spectacular fear
- Identity can be hidden in plain sight
- Adventure is paid for by bodies
- Brotherhood and loyalty matter more than possession
- Lost-world wonder creates awe while revealing colonial imagination
- Comic Englishness becomes survival performance
The objects of note in King Solomon's Mines
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- The Map to Solomon's Mines
- José da Silvestra's Blood-Written Document
- Quatermain's Rifle
- Good's Eye-Glass
- Good's Appearance Cluster
- Chain Armour
- The Diamonds
- Foulata's Basket
- The Lamp / Oil Gourd
- The Secret Stone Door
- The Stone Ring / Hidden Stair
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