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Description edit
A young girl named Maia is sold as a concubine, but uses her position among the rich and powerful to improve her society.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
First Sentence edit
Three hundred yards downstream the noise of the falls, muffled by intervening trees and undergrowth in the crook of the bend, was reduced to a quiet murmur of pouring water, a natural sound more smoothly continuous than any other---than wind, insects or even night frogs in the marshes.
Table of Contents edit
Part 1: The Peasant
1. The Falls
2. The Cabin
3. The Net
4. Visitors
5. A Journey
6. The Black Girl
7. A Friend in Need
8. Kantza-Merada
9. Occula's Comfort
10. Night Talk
11. On the Road
12. An Offer Declined
13. The Gibbet
14. Bekla
15. At Lalloc's
16. The Tale of Lespa's Sacrifice
17. Lalloc
Part II: The Slave-Girl
18. Sencho
19. The Viewing
20. Meris
21. The Pedlar
22. The Rains Banquet
23. Meris Whipped
24. Matters of State
25. Terebinthia Brings News
26. Kembri's Pleasure
27. Waiting
28. A Little Amusement
29. The Urtans
30. Bayub-Otal
31. Milvushina
32. Maia as Comforter
33. An Odd Business
34. An Unexpected Re-encounter
35. Bayub-Otal's Story
36. A Sign for Occula
37. The Senguela
38. The Temple of Cran
39. By the Barb
40. Investigation
41. Queen Fornis
42. A Night Journey
43. Northward
44. Lenkrit
45. Across the Valderra
46. Suba
47. At Lukrait
48. The Golden Lilies
49. A Choice of Daggers
50. Desperation
51. Maia Alone
52. Ordeal by Water
Part III: The Serrelinda
53. Selperron Buys Some Flowers
54. High Life
55. Where is Occula?"
56. A Secret Visit
57. Milvushina Transformed
58. A New Sacred Queen?
59. The Prisoners
60. Pillar to Post
61. The Queen's Prize
62. Tharrin's Disclosure
63. The Barrarz
64. The Morrow Morn
65. A Glimpse Down the Pit
66. And Another
67. Supper Without Milvushina
68. Maia Commissions a Search
69. An Unexpected Visit
70. The Comet and the Scales
71. A Visit From Kembri
72. Friends in Secret
73. The Apotheosis of Lespa
74. Eud-Ecachlon Asks a Question
75. And Gets an Answer
76. Nasada Gives Advice
77. News of Fornis
78. Supper With Nasada
79. Farewells
80. Shend-Lador's Story
81. Randronoth
82. Brero's Return
83. At the Barons' Palace
84. Maia Goes Home
85. At N'Kasit's
86. "Opportunity is All"
Part IV: The Suban
87. What Maia Overheard
88. Meris is Mistaken
89. Into the Forest
90. Down the Daulis
91. The Sarkidian Camp
92. Elleroth Expresses an Opinion
93. Maia's Night Adventure
94. Meris's Last Escapade
95. Destination
96. A Night Encounter
97. Nybril
98. An Unexpected Meeting
99. A Hard Bargain
100. Mist and Rain
101. Dwon the Zhairgen
102. The Frontier
103. Reunion in Keril
104. As Account Settled
105. Maia Answers a Question
MAPS
The Beklan Empire
Bekla
Authors & Contributors edit
- Richard Adams (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Country: England
Publication Date: 1984
ISBN: 0670800333
Page Count: 1056
Publisher: Viking
Country: England
Publication Date: 1984
ISBN: 0670800333
Page Count: 1056
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