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Maia is a fantasy novel by Richard Adams, published in 1984. It is set in the Beklan Empire, the fictional world of Adams's 1974 novel Shardik, to which it stands as a loose prequel, taking place a few years earlier. Plot summary. Part 1: The Peasant.
- Fantasy, Romance
- Richard Adams
- 1984
- Viking Press
27 set 1984 · Maia. Richard Adams. 4.02. 2,414 ratings213 reviews. Maia is a fifteen-year-old peasant beauty growing up in poverty beside Lake Serrelind. Seduced by her stepfather and betrayed by her jealous mother, Maia finds herself in the hands of slave-traders to be sold as a concubine.
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12 dic 1984 · Richard Adams. MAIA Hardcover – December 12, 1984. by Richard Adams (Author) 4.5 448 ratings. Book 1 of 2: Beklan Empire. See all formats and editions. Maia, a peasant girl in the mythical Beklan Empire, is sold into slavery, but a turn of fate sees her become a successful concubine, then a national heroine. Book 1 of 2. Beklan Empire.
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28 nov 2023 · Maia, is a captivating, epic fantasy novel, written by Richard Adams, that takes readers on an adventurous journey through his richly detailed fictional and somewhat ebulliently decorated sexual underworld of The Beklan Empire. Published in 1984, Maia stands as a departure from Adams’ more well-known works like Watership Down and Plague Dogs.
Richard Adams. Knopf, 1985 - Fiction - 1062 pages. Maia, a peasant girl in the mythical Beklan Empire, is sold into slavery, but a turn of fate sees her become a successful concubine, then a...
- illustrated, reprint
- Richard Adams
- Knopf, 1985
Maia is a sexy, swashbuckling and hugely long romp. . . Maia takes place in the same remote fantasy civilization that was the setting for Shardik, although the events in the newer book antedate those in Shardik by a few years . . . His inventiveness in Maia is a complete delight.
Sold into slavery to the dealer Lalloc by her mother when her stepfather seduces her, the beautiful 15-year-old Maia is almost raped by Genshed, one of Lalloc's employees but is saved by Occula, a black slave girl.
