The Tour: A Story of Ancient Egypt
by Louis Couperus
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In the novel The Tour, Dutch writer Louis Couperus takes a sharp detour from his usual subject matter of psychological dramas set in early twentieth-century Europe to explore a story of lost love amongst the dusty byways and lavish compounds of the upper class in ancient Egypt..
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- Canonical title
- The Tour: A Story of Ancient Egypt
- Original title
- Antiek toerisme, een roman uit oud-Egypte
- Original publication date
- 1911 (original Dutch) (original Dutch); 1920 (English translation) (English translation)
- Important places*
- Alexandrië
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 892.736 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Afro-Asiatic literatures Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan) Arabic fiction 1945–2000
- LCC
- PT5825 .A71 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Dutch literature Individual authors or works 1800-1960
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- Dutch, English
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 10
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- 2
