King Solomons Mines 📖

King Solomons Mines

H Rider Haggard
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adventure fiction lost world adventure past tense first POV ~399 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

adventurous oppressive mythic

A dark adventure fiction. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Ends with catharsis. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 90
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 40
externalintrospective
Ending 80
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 20%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count99,698
Page count~399 pp
Prologue
Epilogue
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst