《所罗门王的宝藏》是哈格德的代表作，甫推出即造成轰动，引发探寻宝藏的热潮。哈格德成为家喻户晓的作家，林纾即翻译了二十多部哈格德作品。

King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre.

Henry Rider Haggard (22 June 1856–14 May 1925) was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential.

Soon after we had got under way evening closed in, and brought with it very dirty weather. A keen breeze sprang up off land, and a kind of aggravated Scotch mist soon drove everybody from the deck. And as for that Dunkeld, she is a flat-bottomed punt, and, going up light as she was, she rolled very heavily. It almost seemed as though she would go right over, but she never did. It was quite impossible to walk about, so I stood near the engines, where it was warm, and amused myself with watching the pendulum, which was fixed opposite to me, swinging slowly backward and forward as the vessel rolled, and marking the angle she touched at each lurch.

• CHAPTER I I MEET SIR HENRY CURTIS

• CHAPTER II THE LEGEND OF SOLOMON'S MINES

• CHAPTER III UMBOPA ENTERS OUR SERVICE

• CHAPTER IV AN ELEPHANT HUNT

• CHAPTER V OUR MARCH INTO THE DESERT

• CHAPTER VI WATER! WATER!

• CHAPTER VII SOLOMON'S ROAD

• CHAPTER VIII WE ENTER KUKUANALAND

• CHAPTER IX TWALA, THE KING

• CHAPTER X THE WITCH-HUNT

• CHAPTER XI WE GIVE A SIGN

• CHAPTER XII BEFORE THE BATTLE

• CHAPTER XIII THE ATTACK

• CHAPTER XIV THE LAST STAND OF THE GRAYS

• CHAPTER XV GOOD FALLS SICK

• CHAPTER XVI THE PLACE OF DEATH

• CHAPTER XVII SOLOMON'S TREASURE-CHAMBER

• CHAPTER XVIII WE ABANDON HOPE

• CHAPTER XIX IGNOSI'S FAREWELL

• CHAPTER XX FOUND