Three Novels Of Ancient Egypt Khufu S Wisdom Rhadopis Of Nubia Thebes At War

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307491886

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Three Novels of Ancient Egypt Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Egypt
ISBN : OCLC:655188101

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Three Novels of Ancient Egypt by Najīb Maḥfūẓ Pdf

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307426512

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Khufu's Wisdom by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

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 : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9774248082

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rhadopis of nubia by Najīb Maḥfūẓ Pdf

A journey of intense passion that is totally absorbing and ultimately tragic.

Author : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9774248066

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khufus wisdom by Najīb Maḥfūẓ Pdf

Pharaoh Khufu is battling the Fates. At stake is the inheritance of Egypt's throne, the proud but tender heart of Khufu's beautiful daughter Princess Meresankh, and Khufu's legacy as a sage, not savage, ruler. As the tale begins, Khufu is bored in his great palace at Memphis. To entertain him, his architect Mirabu expounds on the mighty masterwork he has so far spent ten years building, with little yet showing above ground--what will become the Great Pyramid of Giza. Mirabu and the clever vizier Hemiunu tempt him with other amusements as well--but to no avail. Then one of the king's sons fetches a magician with the power to predict the future. The sorcerer says that Khufu's own offspring will not inherit Egypt's throne after him, but that it will fall instead to a son born that very morning to the High Priest of Ra. Furious, Khufu and his crown prince, the ruthless Khafra, set out to change the decree of the Fates--which fight back in the form of Djedefra, the boy at the center of the prophecy, and his heart's desire, Princess Meresankh. Yet will the unsuspecting Khufu survive the intrigue around him--not only to finish his long-awaited book of wisdom, but to become truly wise?

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307429674

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Thebes at War by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

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 : Mattar Karim Mattar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474467056

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Specters of World Literature by Mattar Karim Mattar Pdf

At the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature as an "e;other"e; that haunts its universalising, assimilative imperative with the force of the uncanny. It takes the Middle Eastern novel as both metonym and metaphor of a spectral world literature. It explores the worlding of novels from the Middle East in recent years, and, focusing on the pivotal sites of Middle Eastern modernity (Egypt, Turkey, Iran), argues that lost to their global production, circulation and reception is their constitution in the logic of spectrality. With the intention of redressing this imbalance, it critically restores their engagements with the others of Middle Eastern modernity and shows, through a new reading of the Middle Eastern novel, that world literature is always-already haunted by its others, the ghosts of modernity.

Author : Michael Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : NYPL:33433082476536

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Nubia and Abyssinia by Michael Russell Pdf

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307483614

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The Day the Leader Was Killed by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

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 : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400076697

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Thebes at War by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

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 : James Ellroy
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 1414 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101908051

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The L.A. Quartet by James Ellroy Pdf

Here in one volume is James Ellroy's first great body of work, an epic re-envisioning of postwar Los Angeles--etched in red and black and film-noir grays. The Black Dahlia depicts the secret infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. The Dahlia claims him. She is the deus ex machina of a boomtown in extremis. The cop's rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell. The Big Nowhere blends the crime novel and the political novel. It is winter, 1950--and the L.A. County Grand Jury is out to slam movieland Reds. It's a reverential shuck--and the three cops assigned to the job are out to grab all the glory they can. A series of brutal sex killings intervenes, and the job goes all-the-way bad. L.A. Confidential is the great novel of Los Angeles in the 1950s. Political corruption. Scandal-rag journalism. Bad racial juju and gangland wars. Six local stiffs slaughtered in an all-night hash house. The glorious and overreaching LAPD on an unprecedented scale. White Jazz gives us the tortured confession of a corrupt cop going down for the count. He's a slumlord, a killer, a parasitic exploiter. He's a pawn in a series of police power plays and starting to see that he's being had. He's just met a woman. Thus, he's determined to claw his way out of the horrifying world he's created--and he's determined to tell us everything. The L.A. Quartet is a groundbreaking work of American popular fiction.

Author : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 1299266622

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Khufu's Wisdom by Najīb Maḥfūẓ Pdf

Author : Julie Dawson,Helen Strudwick
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1785709186

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Ancient Egyptian Coffins by Julie Dawson,Helen Strudwick Pdf

Major new multi-disciplinary collection of papers focusing on the development of the coffin in ancient Egypt and the belief systems behind funerary practices involving their use and on new methods and applications of scientific techniques for the analysis of construction, materials and craftmanship involved in coffin manufacture and reworking.

Author : Shawn James
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 148110067X

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Isis: Amari's Revenge by Shawn James Pdf

Art Attack! Isis comes face-to-face with danger when a statue of Queen Amari comes to life on the floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Returned to life through a magic spell, Amari seeks revenge on the woman she believes stole the heart of her Prince and her kingdom two thousand years ago. As Isis works with her estranged sister E'steem, she seeks to extend an olive branch to the bitter Queen. Will she forgive and forget? Or will she continue to hold onto her two thousand year old grudge and finally mete out her vengeance on the goddess of retribution?

Author : Paul Scott
Publisher : Random House
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409037613

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The Jewel In The Crown by Paul Scott Pdf

___________________ NOW A BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA DRAMATISATION STARRING ANNA MAXWELL MARTIN AND PRASANNA PUWANARAJAH ___________________ BOOK ONE OF THE RAJ QUARTET India 1942: everything is in flux. World War II has shown that the British are not invincible and the self-rule lobby is gaining many supporters. Against this background, Daphne Manners, a young English girl, is brutally raped in the Bibighat Gardens. The racism, brutality and hatred launched upon the head of her young Indian lover echo the dreadful violence perpetrated on Daphne and reveal the desperate state of Anglo-Indian relations. The rift that will eventually prise India - the jewel in the Imperial Crown - from colonial rule is beginning to gape wide. ___________________ 'A major work, a glittering combination of brilliant craftsmanship, psychological perception and objective reporting... Rarely have the sounds and smells and total atmosphere been so evocatively suggested' - New York Times 'Absorbing and brilliant... A triumph' - Evening Standard 'One of the most important landmarks of post-war fiction... A mighty literary experience' - The Times 'Quite simply, monumental' - Washington Post