Nada the Lily: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Nada the Lily, credited to H. Rider Haggard, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard. Read in English by Phil Benson 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

Recording facts

• Recording title: Nada the Lily
• Author credits: H. Rider Haggard
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 13:15:16

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• South Africa
• kwazulu-natal

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 00 - Dedication, Preface and Introduction — 24:20
2. 01 - The Boy Chaka Prophesies — 16:53
3. 02 - Mopo in Trouble — 14:20
4. 03 - Mopo Ventures Home — 11:57
5. 04 - The Flight of Mopo and Baleka — 27:19
6. 05 - Mopo Becomes the King's Doctor — 13:02
7. 06 - The Birth of Umslopogaas — 20:41
8. 07 - Umslopogaas Answers the King — 17:48
9. 08 - The Great Ingomboco — 28:07
10. 09 - The Loss of Umslopogaas — 20:09
11. 10 - The Trial of Mopo — 27:22
12. 11 - The Counsel of Baleka — 19:47
13. 12 - The Tale of Galazi the Wolf — 25:04
14. 13 - Galazi Becomes King of the Wolves — 27:21
15. 14 - The Wolf-Brethren — 18:39
16. 15 - The Death of the King's Slayers — 16:22
17. 16 - Umslopogaas Ventures Out to Win the Axe — 17:14
18. 17 - Umslopogaas Becomes Chief of the People of the Axe — 22:22
19. 18 - The Curse of Baleka — 31:17
20. 19 - Masilo Comes to the Kraal Dugeza — 22:19
21. 20 - Mopo Bargains with the Princes — 21:26
22. 21 - The Death of Chaka — 27:03
23. 22 - Mopo Goes to Seek the Slaughterer — 22:29
24. 23 - Mopo Reveals Himself to the Slaughterer — 24:32

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