The Wizard

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The Wizard by H. Rider Haggard

The Wizard, was first published in 1896. This text was prepared from a 3-volume set published in 1900 titled: "Black Heart and White Heart, and Other Stories." These three volumes were dedicated to Nada Burnham (1894 - 1896), the daughter of Frederick Russell Burnham.

Contents 1 The Wizard 1.1 Dedication 1.2 Author's Note 1.3 Contents

[edit] The Wizard

[edit] Dedication

To the Memory of the Child
Nada Burnham,
who "bound all to her" and, while her father cut his way through the hordes of the Ingobo Regiment, perished of the hardships of war at Buluwayo on 19th May, 1896, I dedicate these tales—and more particularly the last, that of a Faith which triumphed over savagery and death.

H. Rider Haggard.

Ditchingham.

[edit] Author's Note

Of the three stories that comprise this volume, one, "The Wizard," a tale of victorious faith, first appeared some years ago as a Christmas Annual. Another, "Elissa," is an attempt, difficult enough owing to the scantiness of the material left to us by time, to recreate the life of the ancient Poenician Zimbabwe, whose ruins still stand in Rhodesia, and, with the addition of the necessary love story, to suggest circumstances such as might have brought about or accompanied its fall at the hands of the surrounding savage tribes. The third, "Black Heart and White Heart," is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo.

[edit] Contents

• Chapter I: THE DEPUTATION
• Chapter II: THOMAS OWEN
• Chapter III: THE TEMPTATION
• Chapter IV: THE VISION
• Chapter V: THE FEAST OF THE FIRST-FRUITS
• Chapter VI: THE DRINKING OF THE CUP
• Chapter VII: THE RECOVERY OF THE KING
• Chapter VIII: THE FIRST TRIAL BY FIRE
• Chapter IX: THE CRISIS
• Chapter X: THE SECOND TRIAL BY FIRE
• Chapter XI: THE WISDOM OF THE DEAD
• Chapter XII: THE MESSAGE OF HOKOSA
• Chapter XIII: THE BASKET OF FRUIT
• Chapter XIV: THE EATING OF THE FRUIT
• Chapter XV: NOMA COMES TO HAFELA
• Chapter XVI: THE REPENTANCE OF HOKOSA
• Chapter XVII: THE LOOSING OF NOMA
• Chapter XVIII: THE PASSING OF OWEN
• Chapter XIX: THE FALL OF THE GREAT PLACE
• Chapter XX: NOMA SETS A SNARE
• Chapter XXI: HOKOSA IS LIFTED UP
• Chapter XXII: THE VICTORY OF THE CROSS

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1925, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.