Author: Georg EbersPublisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
This is a 19th-century fiction about Egypt written by German Egyptologist and novelist Georg Moritz Ebers. It presents a captivating story circling an Egyptian Physician who becomes involved with a deceitful, manipulative woman and the Egyptian Princess. Some parts of the book are set in Egypt, some in Greece, and some in Persia. The author has also done a clever intermixing of people from distinct civilizations and has added the themes of romance and war in this fiction. The work also has a lot of dialogue about the rights of women and gives us an insight into how they were treated in various cultures. It is an excellent way to get more knowledge of ancient history as it tells the readers about Darius the Great and how he became a king of Persia through the Princess's point of view. It's well-written historical work that will be of great interest to the history enthusiast.
