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Nada the Lily

by H. Rider HAGGARD (1856 - 1925)

A classic tale of love and revenge set in the Zulu Kingdom of present-day KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. A work of fiction loosely woven around actual historical events, Nada the Lily is unusual in the literature of the British empire for its cast of entirely black African characters. Narrated by Mopo, witch-doctor to the legendary Zulu king, Chaka, and featuring a spectral wolf pack and a cave that becomes a tomb, the novel continues in the spirit of the Alan Quatermain novels that made H. Rider Haggard the best-selling author of the nineteenth century. Nada the Lily was republished in the 1970s as the twentieth volume in the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library, which included nine of Haggard's works. - Summary by Phil Benson

Listen next episodes of Nada the Lily:
Galazi Becomes King of the Wolves , Masilo Comes to the Kraal Dugeza , Mopo Bargains with the Princes , Mopo Becomes the King's Doctor , Mopo Ends His Tale , Mopo Goes to Seek the Slaughterer , Mopo Reveals Himself to the Slaughterer , Mopo Tells His Tale , The Birth of Umslopogaas , The Coming of Nada , The Counsel of Baleka , The Curse of Baleka , The Death of Chaka , The Death of the King's Slayers , The End of the People Black and Grey , The Finding of Nada , The Flight of Mopo and Baleka , The Great Ingomboco , The Lily is Brought to Dingaan , The Lily's Farewell , The Loss of Umslopogaas , The Slaying of the Boers , The Stamping of the Fire , The Tale of Galazi the Wolf , The Trial of Mopo , The Vengeance of Mopo and His Fosterling , The War of the Women , The War with the Halakazi People , The Wolf-Brethren , Umslopogaas Answers the King , Umslopogaas Becomes Chief of the People of the Axe , Umslopogaas Ventures Out to Win the Axe , Zenita Comes to the King