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Loading... Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War (Everyman's Library) (original 1939; edition 2007)by Naguib Mahfouz, Raymond Stock (Translator), Anthony Calderbank (Translator), Humphrey Davies (Translator), Nadine Gordimer (Introduction)
Work InformationThree Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War by Naguib Mahfouz (1939)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Having read and enjoyed Mahfouz's magnificent Cairo Trilogy I thought I would read some of his other writing. I was not disappointed. This is a book I would recommend to anyone who has read and enjoyed Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann. ( ) The three novels are early works of the author, melodramatic and romantic, but with strong characters who have interesting internal lives, and conflicts. I always prefer a setting in historical times to a modern setting. I enjoy learning about unfamiliar customs, and habits of everyday life. The stories are linked with the history of Pharoahs of ancient Egypt, each with a love story. The introduction is very long, reminding me of the essays I had to write in high school, best read after the books.
For the first time, Everyman’s Library has collected Mahfouz’s trilogy of novels about ancient Egypt in one volume. Compared to his better known and dustily realistic Cairo Trilogy, which portrays mid-twentieth-century Cairo in all its menace and squalor, these earlier novels seem grandiose and melodramatic, like a Cecil B. DeMille movie, complete with chariots and a cast of thousands.
From Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz: the three magnificent novels--published in an omnibus edition for the first time--that form an ancient-Egyptian counterpart to his famous Cairo Trilogy. Mahfouz reaches back thousands of years to bring us tales from his homeland's majestic early history--tales of the Egyptian nobility and of war, star-crossed love, and the divine rule of the pharoahs. In Khufu's Wisdom, the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch faces the prospect of the end of his rule and the possibility that his daughter has fallen in love with the man prophesied to be his successor. Rhadopis of Nubia is the unforgettable story of the charismatic young Pharoah Merenra II and the ravishing courtesan Rhadopis, whose love affair makes them the envy of all Egyptian society. And Thebes at War tells the epic story of Egypt's victory over the Asiatic foreigners who dominated the country for two centuries. Three Novels of Ancient Egypt gives us a dazzling tapestry of ancient Egypt and reminds us of the remarkable artistry of Naguib Mahfouz. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)892.736Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan) Arabic fiction 1945–2000LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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