Thread: MobileRead Discussion - "King Solomon's Mines" by Sir Henry Rider Haggard
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Old 07-01-2009, 04:40 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Haggard basically invented the "lost civilisation" genre and wrote some excellent examples of it.
Maybe the Atlantis legend was an early example of the 'lost civilisation' genre.

An early novel on the theme was 'Symzonia' from 1820.
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