Three Novels Of Ancient Egypt Khufus Wisdom Rhadopis Of Nubia Thebes At War

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0307491889
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Novels of Ancient Egypt Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Novels of Ancient Egypt written by Najīb Maḥfūẓ and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774248085
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book rhadopis of nubia written by Najīb Maḥfūẓ and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey of intense passion that is totally absorbing and ultimately tragic.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307429679
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thebes at War written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known and loved throughout Egypt as a work that celebrates the national character, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s Thebes at War tells of a high point in Egyptian history–ancient Egypt’s defeat of Asiatic foreigners who had dominated northern Egypt for two hundred years. With a visit from a court official and a provocative insult, the southern pharaoh’s long simmering resentment boils over, leading him to commit himself and his heirs to an epic struggle for the throne. Filled with the grand clash of armies, staggering defeats, daring escapes, and glorious victories, and written at a time when Egypt was again under the sway of foreign powers, Thebes at War is a resounding call to remember Egypt’s long and noble history.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307426513
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Khufu's Wisdom written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the center of Khufu’s Wisdom, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s majestic first novel, is the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch Khufu (Cheops), for whom the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. When a seer prophesies the end of Khufu’s dynasty and the ascension to the throne of Djedefra, son of the High Priest of Ra, the pharaoh must battle to preserve his legacy against the will of the Fates. But in the face of the inexorable attraction between Djedefra and Princess Meresankh, Khufu’s beautiful daughter, Khufu must consider not only his personal ambition and the opposing decree of the heavens, but also how the wisdom he prides himself on as a ruler will guide him in determining the fate of his daughter’s heart. Translated by Raymond Stock

Author : Ann Warren Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439652230
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maïa of Thebes written by Ann Warren Turner and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Egyptian girl, whose brother secretly taught her to read and write, accuses her uncle of stealing grain from the temple and must run away from Thebes to survive.

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307483614
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day the Leader Was Killed written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt. The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Set against this backdrop, The Day the Leader Was Killed relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family. Rich with irony and infused with political undertones, the story is narrated alternately by the pious and mischievous family patriarch Muhtashimi Zayed, his hapless grandson Elwan, and Elwan's headstrong and beautiful fiancee Randa. The novel reaches its climax with the assassination of Sadat on October 6, 1981, an event around which the fictional plot is skillfully woven. The Day the Leader Was Killed brings us the essence of Mahfouz's genius and is further proof that he has, in the words of the Nobel citation, "formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind."

Author : Michael Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nubia and Abyssinia written by Michael Russell and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307481263
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Akhenaten written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo Trilogy, comes Akhenaten, a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt. In this beguiling novel, originally published in Arabic in 1985, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the "heretic pharaoh," or "sun king,"--the first known monotheistic ruler--whose iconoclastic and controversial reign during the 18th Dynasty (1540-1307 B.C.) has uncanny resonance with modern sensibilities. Narrating the novel is a young man with a passion for the truth, who questions the pharaoh's contemporaries after his horrible death--including Akhenaten's closest friends, his most bitter enemies, and finally his enigmatic wife, Nefertiti--in an effort to discover what really happened in those strange, dark days at Akhenaten's court. As our narrator and each of the subjects he interviews contribute their version of Akhenaten, "the truth" becomes increasingly evanescent. Akhenaten encompasses all of the contradictions his subjects see in him: at once cruel and empathic, feminine and barbaric, mad and divinely inspired, his character, as Mahfouz imagines him, is eerily modern, and fascinatingly ethereal. An ambitious and exceptionally lucid and accessible book, Akhenaten is a work only Mahfouz could render so elegantly, so irresistibly.

Author : Sandy Rowland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985851835
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apollo's Gift written by Sandy Rowland and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The golden god, Apollo, will pay any price to win the heart of Cassandra, reincarnated, prophetess of ancient Troy. Even his soul. Cassie Priam is licking her wounds, following her latest romantic disaster. To hell with love, it’s fiction and she’s done believing in myths. A snare has been set, and Apollo stepped into it when he wagered with Hades. Gaining Cassie’s love is a herculean task. She refuses to believe he exists, despite her attraction to his chiseled perfection. He’s a dream. The kind that keeps her up at night and invades her thoughts during the day. Why can’t a man like that be real? But Cassie’s dreams veer into reality as visions of destruction threaten and Apollo appears in the flesh. Can Apollo and Cassie learn to love and believe in each other before Hydra levels Athens, and they lose both their lives, and their souls to Hades? APOLLO’S GIFT is the first novel in the Greek Gods Series. The romantic fantasy centers on Olympian deity and their efforts to gain love while they save mortals from the threat of evil in the form of Hydra.