Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go... Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset.

H. Rider Haggard

King Solomon's Mines

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Topic

Nature of life Ephemeral nature of life Shortness of life Life Death

Speaker

Ignosi (Umbopa)

Author

H. Rider Haggard

Source

King Solomon's Mines

Medium

Novel

Genre

Adventure novel

Language

English

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. London: Cassell and Company, 1886.

Current Citation

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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