Montezuma’s Daughter by H. Rider Haggard
Montezuma's Daughter, first published in 1893, is a novel 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 a 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.
Table of Content
Chapter 1 Why Thomas Wingfield Tells His Tale
Chapter 2 Of the Parentage of Thomas Wingfield
Chapter 3 The Coming of the Spaniard
Chapter 4 Thomas Tells His Love
Chapter 5 Thomas Swears an Oath
Chapter 6 Good-Bye, Sweetheart
Chapter 10 The Passing of Isabella de Siguenza
Chapter 11 The Loss of the Carak
Chapter 12 Thomas Comes to Shore
Chapter 13 The Stone of Sacrifice
Chapter 14 The Saving of Guatemoc
Chapter 15 The Court of Montezuma
Chapter 16 Thomas Becomes a God
Chapter 17 The Arising of Papantzin
Chapter 18 The Naming of the Brides
Chapter 22 The Triumph of the Cross
Chapter 25 The Burying of Montezuma’s Treasure
Chapter 26 The Crowning of Guatemoc
Chapter 27 The Fall of Tenoctitlan
Chapter 29 De Garcia Speaks His Mind
Chapter 31 Otomie Pleads with Her People
Chapter 32 The End of Guatemoc
Chapter 33 Isabella de Siguenza Is Avenged
Chapter 34 The Siege of the City of Pines
Chapter 35 The Last Sacrifice of the Women of the Otomie