Montezuma's Daughter
H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
Montezuma's Daughter
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Montezuma's Daughter, first published in 1893, is a novel written by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. Narrated in the first person by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman whose adventures include having his mother murdered, a brush with the Spanish Inquisition, shipwreck, and slavery. Eventually, Thomas unwillingly joins a Spanish expedition to New Spain, and the novel tells the fictionalized story of the first interactions between the natives and European explorers. This includes a number of misunderstandings, prejudice on the part of the Spaniards, and ultimately open war.
During the course of the story, Thomas meets and marries the daughter of the native king (from whom the novel takes its title) and settles into life in Mexico. The war destroys his native family, and eventually Thomas gets revenge on the antagonist and returns to England.
While in Mexico in 1891 researching for the book Haggard received news that his only son had died, which dealt him a lasting blow and badly affected his health. Haggard himself recognised that Montezuma's Daughter was the last of his best work "for the rest was repetition so far as fiction was concerned". Like many Victorian adventure novels, this one sometimes treats the natives as naïve and barbaric, a flaw Haggard explicitly points out in his main character.
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MONTEZUMA'S DAUGHTER
MONTEZUMA'S DAUGHTER
CHAPTER I
WHY THOMAS WINGFIELD TELLS HIS TALE
CHAPTER II
OF THE PARENTAGE OF THOMAS WINGFIELD
CHAPTER III
THE COMING OF THE SPANIARD
CHAPTER IV
THOMAS TELLS HIS LOVE
CHAPTER V
THOMAS SWEARS AN OATH
CHAPTER VI
GOOD-BYE, SWEETHEART
CHAPTER VII
ANDRES DE FONSECA
CHAPTER VIII
THE SECOND MEETING
CHAPTER IX
THOMAS BECOMES RICH
CHAPTER X
THE PASSING OF ISABELLA DE SIGUENZA
CHAPTER XI
THE LOSS OF THE CARAK
CHAPTER XII
THOMAS COMES TO SHORE
CHAPTER XIII
THE STONE OF SACRIFICE
CHAPTER XIV
THE SAVING OF GUATEMOC
CHAPTER XV
THE COURT OF MONTEZUMA
CHAPTER XVI
THOMAS BECOMES A GOD
CHAPTER XVII
THE ARISING OF PAPANTZIN
CHAPTER XVIII
THE NAMING OF THE BRIDES
CHAPTER XIX
THE FOUR GODDESSES
CHAPTER XX
OTOMIE'S COUNSEL
CHAPTER XXI
THE KISS OF LOVE
CHAPTER XXII
THE TRIUMPH OF THE CROSS
CHAPTER XXIII
THOMAS IS MARRIED
CHAPTER XXIV
THE NIGHT OF FEAR
CHAPTER XXV
THE BURYING OF MONTEZUMA'S TREASURE
CHAPTER XXVI
THE CROWNING OF GUATEMOC
CHAPTER XXVII
THE FALL OF TENOCTITLAN
CHAPTER XXVIII
THOMAS IS DOOMED
CHAPTER XXIX
DE GARCIA SPEAKS HIS MIND
CHAPTER XXX
THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XXXI
OTOMIE PLEADS WITH HER PEOPLE
CHAPTER XXXII
THE END OF GUATEMOC
CHAPTER XXXIII
ISABELLA DE SIGUENZA IS AVENGED
CHAPTER XXXIV
THE SIEGE OF THE CITY OF PINES
CHAPTER XXXV
THE LAST SACRIFICE OF THE WOMEN OF THE OTOMIE
CHAPTER XXXVI
THE SURRENDER
CHAPTER XXXVII
VENGEANCE
CHAPTER XXXVIII
OTOMIE'S FAREWELL
CHAPTER XXXIX
THOMAS COMES BACK FROM THE DEAD
CHAPTER XL
AMEN
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