Georg Ebers
Uarda
(Historical Novel)
Historical Novel - A Romance of Ancient Egypt
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2020 OK Publishing
EAN 4064066393168
Table of Contents
Preface to the Fifth German Edition.
PREFACE.
In the winter of 1873 I spent some weeks in one of the tombs of the Necropolis of Thebes in order to study the monuments of that solemn city of the dead; and during my long rides in the silent desert the germ was developed whence this book has since grown. The leisure of mind and body required to write it was given me through a long but not disabling illness.
In the first instance I intended to elucidate this story—like my “Egyptian Princess”—with numerous and extensive notes placed at the end; but I was led to give up this plan from finding that it would lead me to the repetition of much that I had written in the notes to that earlier work.
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