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Streszczenie książki Dziecię Burzy
- 8 min czytania
- 11 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
A Zulu girl born in a storm sets a proud chief and a prince on a collision course, and Allan Quatermain watches.
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Dziecię Burzy — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 6 h4 h 45 min fast, 7 h 10 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 86 100
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Średni longer sentences, everyday words
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1913by H. Rider Haggard
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Dziecię Burzy in short
Child of Storm follows a hunting trip that grows into a national catastrophe. Allan Quatermain meets the proud chief Saduko and the dwarf Zikali, who sees the future and hates the Zulu royal House. Then Mameena enters, beautiful, clever and hungry for power, and the lives of everyone near her begin to bend toward her.
What Dziecię Burzy is about
A young trader stands in a Zulu kraal as an old gun fires by itself and slices the top off a wife's ear. Nothing about the scene looks dangerous. Yet from that comic moment Allan Quatermain first hears the name of Mameena, and the name will follow him through war, murder and ruin. Why would men of every rank lose their heads over one woman?
Child of Storm is an adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard, told by Quatermain himself, an old hunter writing in England. It rests on a real struggle between two princes over their father's throne. You get a beauty who wants to rule, a proud chief who wants her, and a prophet who sees the road ahead.
Dla kogo. You will love this book if you enjoy African adventure, battle scenes, sharp-tongued heroines, prophecies that come true, and the fall of kings told by a dry-humoured narrator.
The story in 11 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
An Old Hunter Sets Down a Storm Story
Allan Quatermain writes from England, years after the events, and wants to save one story above all. It is mostly about Mameena, daughter of a headman named Umbezi, whom the Zulus also call Child of Storm.
Quatermain compares her to Helen of Troy but thinks Mameena had more fire. Both were lovely, both were unfaithful, and both cost hundreds of men their lives. Mameena, however, wanted to become the first woman of the Zulu world.
The story starts in 1854, when Quatermain meets Umbezi and Saduko before visiting Zikali and setting out to hunt. Umbezi is promised a bad old gun, and it goes off and clips the ear of one of his wives. Umbezi says Saduko must bring a hundred cattle for his eldest daughter. Her own father says her heart loves no one but herself. Desire for one woman sets everything in motion.
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Saduko's Burned Childhood and Zikali's Two Roads
That night Saduko creeps into Quatermain's wagon and asks for a good gun.
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Zikali's Moonshine Tells the Future
Quatermain walks a full day to reach the Black Kloof, a gloomy cleft full of boulders and chattering baboons.
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The Buffalo with the Cleft Horn
The hunt goes well at first.
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Mameena Appears and Makes Her Offer
Quatermain wakes in Umbezi's hut and sees a woman standing in a beam of golden light.
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Two Bucks, a Doe and the Raid on Bangu
When Quatermain is healed he plans to leave for Natal.
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Cattle Too Late and a Royal Bride
Saduko comes home rich in cattle and dressed like a king.
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Poison, a Smelling-Out and a Kingdom on Edge
A year later Quatermain comes back to trade guns at Umbezi's kraal.
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Love, Ambition and the Price of Both
The book is a study of what drives people.
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Fate, Revenge and the Hand Behind the Stone
Zikali stands behind every scene.
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How Quatermain Tells It
The story comes from Allan Quatermain, an elderly hunter in England who says he hates writing, and his voice carries the book.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Allan Quatermain A white hunter and trader, the narrator, who wants to stay out of Zulu quarrels but is repeatedly pulled into them.
- Mameena Umbezi's daughter, a copper-skinned beauty of great wit, who wants to rise to the highest place a woman can hold.
- Saduko A tall young chief whose family was destroyed by Bangu, and who wants revenge, wealth and Mameena.
- Zikali An ancient dwarf and prophet, the Opener of Roads, who plots the fall of the royal House of Senzangakona.
- Umbezi Mameena's boastful, genial father and a headman who wants cattle, comfort and a safe place beside the strong.
- Nandie A daughter of King Panda and wife of Saduko, calm and honest, who wants to keep her husband and her family safe.
- Umbelazi Panda's tall, handsome and kind-hearted son, beloved of the people, who claims the throne against his brother.
- Cetewayo Panda's fierce, able son and Umbelazi's rival, who believes the throne is rightfully his.
How it ends (spoiler)
Mameena and Saduko are put on trial before Panda. Saduko confesses to a plot in which Mameena poisoned his child, but Zikali shows that she shaped his story, and she admits her guilt. She claims her promised kiss from Quatermain and dies by poison. Umbelazi falls at the battle of the Tugela after Saduko, mad with jealousy, betrays him. Years later Saduko dies in Natal, haunted, crying Mameena's name while Zikali's laughter echoes.
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Pytania o Dziecię Burzy
What is Child of Storm about?
It tells how the beautiful Mameena, a Zulu headman's daughter, draws the chief Saduko, King Panda's sons and the white trader Allan Quatermain into a spiral of love, ambition and revenge that leads to a civil war.
Who is Zikali in Child of Storm?
Zikali is an ancient dwarf, healer and prophet, called the Opener of Roads. He hates the royal House of Senzangakona, sees the future, and quietly steers the characters toward the fall of the Zulu kings.
Is Child of Storm a true story?
The quarrel of the princes Cetewayo and Umbelazi and the battle of the Tugela in 1856 are real history, while Mameena and her story are Haggard's invention. He wrote it in 1912 as Quatermain's memoir.
Why is Mameena called Child of Storm?
Mameena was born on a stormy night, and her name imitates the sound of the wind wailing round the hut. Her other name means child of the storm, and it suits her stormy life and her power to stir men.
Is Child of Storm a good read for adventure fans?
Yes for lovers of action and character. It has a buffalo hunt, a night ambush, royal courts and a clever heroine, and it is narrated with dry humour by Quatermain in a clear, vivid voice.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Haggard, H. Rider. Child of Storm. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/child-of-storm.
Haggard, H. R. (2026). Child of storm. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/child-of-storm (Original work published 1913)
Haggard, H. Rider. Child of Storm. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/child-of-storm.
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