THE FAIR GOD (Illustrated) (Annotated)

Lew Wallace's The Fair God is a sweeping historical romance of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, dramatizing the collision between Hernán Cortés's imperial ambition and the doomed grandeur of the Aztec world. Richly descriptive and ceremonious in style, the novel blends adventure, political intrigue, and tragic spectacle, drawing on nineteenth-century historiography—especially the tradition of Presc...