Not only at home, but also far beyond its borders, the English writer Henry Ryder Haggard is well known as the author of a large number of historical and adventure books. His famous novel "The Daughter of Montezuma" is about the struggle of the Aztecs, the ancient inhabitants of Mexico, with the Spanish conquerors led by Cortes. In the center of the narrative is the love of the Englishman Thomas Wingfield and the Indian girl Otomi, the daughter of the supreme ruler of the Aztecs of Montezuma.