Fiction · 1892
Nada the Lily
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Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter I — The Boy Chaka Prophesies
- Chapter II — Mopo Is in Trouble
- Chapter III — Mopo Ventures Home
- Chapter IV — The Flight of Mopo and Baleka
- Chapter V — Mopo Becomes the King’s Doctor
- Chapter VI — The Birth of Umslopogaas
- Chapter VII — Umslopogaas Answers the King
- Chapter VIII — The Great Ingomboco
- Chapter IX — The Loss of Umslopogaas
- Chapter X — The Trial of Mopo
- Chapter XI — The Counsel of Baleka
- Chapter XII — The Tale of Galazi the Wolf
- Chapter XIII — Galazi Becomes King of the Wolves
- Chapter XIV — The Wolf-Brethren
- Chapter XV — The Death of the King’s Slayers
- Chapter XVI — Umslopogaas Ventures Out to Win the Axe
- Chapter XVII — Umslopogaas Becomes Chief of the People of the Axe
- Chapter XVIII — The Curse of Baleka
- Chapter XIX — Masilo Comes to the Kraal Duguza
- Chapter XX — Mopo Bargains with the Princes
- Chapter XXI — The Death of Chaka
- Chapter XXII — Mopo Goes to Seek the Slaughterer
- Chapter XXIII — Mopo Reveals Himself to the Slaughterer
- Chapter XXIV — The Slaying of the Boers
- Chapter XXV — The War with the Halakazi People
- Chapter XXVI — The Finding of Nada
- Chapter XXVII — The Stamping of the Fire
- Chapter XXVIII — The Lily Is Brought to Dingaan
- Chapter XXIX — Mopo Tells His Tale
- Chapter XXX — The Coming of Nada
- Chapter XXXI — The War of the Women
- Chapter XXXII — Zinita Comes to the King
- Chapter XXXIII — The End of the People, Black and Grey
- Chapter XXXIV — The Lily’s Farewell
- Chapter XXXV — The Vengeance of Mopo and His Fosterling
- Chapter XXXVI — Mopo Ends His Tale
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About the author
1856–1925 · Victorian
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was born in Bradenham, Norfolk, and went out to South Africa at nineteen on the staff of the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, witnessing the British annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 and later farming ostriches there before returning to England to study law. King Solomon's Mines (1885), reportedly written on a wager with his brother that he could not write a novel as good as Treasure Island, was an immediate sensation and established the "lost world" adventure novel as a genre; She (1887) and Allan Quatermain (1887) followed, and Haggard returned to the character of Allan Quatermain across some eighteen further books over the next four decades. Away from fiction he wrote extensively on agriculture and rural welfare, served on royal commissions on land settlement and coastal erosion, and was knighted in 1912 for this public service. He died in London at sixty-eight.
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